Isabelle Hattan

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“A body could be labeled but a person couldn’t, and the difference between the two depended on that muscle in your chest. That beloved organ, not sentient, not aware, not feeling, just pumping along, keeping you alive.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half