Alessandra

“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“How long will you strive with your Maker?”
― Jen Wilkin, None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us

“It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one.”
― Sunjeev Sahota, China Room

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World