"Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly."
- Sharon Sant
"Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have t..."
- Kemi Sogunle
"It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom."
- Dan Groat
"I'll tell you something,' Arthur said. 'Until a certain age, everyone thinks their parents are heroes. Then they grow up a little, start to understand a little more of the world, and they realize thei..."
- Carrie Vaughn
"Lord, but did he grow up nice."
- Kelly Moran
"There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren..."
- Michelle Orange