--Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
“After all this time, I still ask myself: Was it my fault? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, I wonder what would have happened if I’d called out a warning. Or kept my mouth shut later.”
--Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
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“Dr. Klein jots down notes, and then he stops writing and just sits, ramrod straight, looking small and a little scared in his big boy chair. In the end, he hands my parents a script for antipsychotic medication and schedules some serious sessions. So, now I’ve been to see a drug counselor who told me I needed to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.”
--Going Bovine by Libba Bray “She wanted to speak, to tell the fey to leave so she didn’t have to, but she couldn’t. Ever. If she did, they’d know her secret: they’d know she could see them. The only way to survive was to keep that secret; Grams taught her that rule before she could even write her name: Keep your head down and your mouth closed.”
--Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr “You don’t understand, my headvoice answers. Too bad she can’t hear it. My throat squeezes shut, as if two hands of black fingernails are clamped on my windpipe. I have worked so hard to forget every second of that stupid party, and here I am in the middle of a hostile crowd that hates me for what I had to do. I can’t tell them what really happened. I can’t even look at that part myself.”
--Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson "Don't give up! I believe in you all
A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!" --Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss |