Jeremiah

“I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.”
― John Stephens, The Emerald Atlas

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“He demanded I tell him all I knew. I refused. He threatened me. Still, I refused. He became irate. He screamed. He spat. He threw plates. Overturned tables. He punched his minister of culture.”
― John Stephens, The Emerald Atlas

“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny rhymes by Emily Dickinson.”
― Margarita Engle, Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings