Danielle

“I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I don't think blood's the only way kids come by things honest. Not even the main way. It's what you tell them, Taylor. If a person is bad, say, it makes them feel better to tell their kids that they're even worse. And that's just exactly what they'll grow up to be.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“Because where are you even going to steal an apple off a tree? In this city if you're out of money you are screwed, no two ways about it.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I put my face to the window so nobody would see, if I tore up. Was this me now, for life? Taking up space where people wished I wasn’t? Once on a time I was something, and then I turned, like sour milk. The dead junkie’s kid. A rotten little piece of American pie that everybody wishes could just be, you know. Removed.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead