JadeReads

“Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. They will see any crack as evidence that they were right that a woman cannot do what you do.

Hunyadi knew what he spoke of. Her merits, her accomplishments, her strength would never speak for themselves. She would have to cut her way through the world, uphill, for the rest of her life.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“We see the strengths and faults in others that we do not or cannot recognize in ourselves.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
Let her be strong.
Let her be sly.
And let her be ugly.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken