Renata Xavier

“Dad was talking loudly, at a volume that would have suited a mountainside but was thunderous in the small restaurant.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The only way to really understand what money means is to have been poor,”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Alice tried not to think too hard about the previous evening. She had once been told by her favorite aunt that the best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard,”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory