Jackie (readingwordsmith)

“terror being the beginning of beauty. Or something like that. I don’t quite remember.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“You know, I just... I just feel like it's unfair, that my whole life is unfair, like I was born into the wrong place and family. I never belong anywhere. My parents don't understand anything about me. And my sister is gone. Sometimes I watch those stupid TV shows, you know? The ones where mothers and daughters talk about feelings and fathers take their kids to play baseball or get ice cream or some shit like that, and I wish it were me. It's so stupid, I know, to want your life to be a sitcom.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

“I feel like something has risen inside me too, and it tastes a bit like hope.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“I painted flames for her. She was always angry, always burning”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses