Cindy

“All the things that make you different make you perfect.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution. I don’t even know that white people see transcendence the way we do. I’m not sure that their dichotomies apply to me.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“Through their brainwork, the women had an impact on the fighting that went on.”
― Liza Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II