Cassandra

“Once you get that sense that there’s no real security, that anything at all can happen to you, then every minute you’re okay is a joy. Part of the joy is feeling like you can make your way in a world that isn’t always easy.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Becoming Chloe

“Cowards start wars, and the brave fight them.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Stories were living inside us. I think we were born to tell our stories. After we died, our stories would survive. Maybe it was our stories that fed the universe the energy it needed to keep on giving life.

Maybe all we were meant to do on this earth was to keep on telling stories. Our stories—and the stories of the people we loved.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Now you listen and you listen good." [Mama's] voice is so quiet it scares me. "Nobody's going toletus be anything. We have just as much right to this world as they have, and we are not going to wait around for them to give us permission.”
― Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves