Out of the Easy

by Ruta Sepetys

“They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain’t happy. They ain’t ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can’t fix that, no sir.

Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin’ we’re goin’ one place and we end up another. But that’s okay. The important thing is to start.

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” —Sir Francis Bacon