Esther

“When you're a kid in a one-bedroom in the projects, rich is the best thing anybody can be.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“All I do is fuck up. No one cares about who I really am.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“Miriam thought her the most entitled white women she had met—uninteresting, her life so intertwined with that of her husband’s that she was no longer distinguishable as a woman.”
― Tara M. Stringfellow, Memphis

“Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and still remember him as an angel.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact