Janelle Rae

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I’ll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I’d rather live in a grim reality than a comfortable delusion.”
― Evan Grinde, Chasing Oblivion

“Okay, kids,' Dad said, 'the civilians are revolting. We better skedaddle.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.”
― Richard Rodriguez