Kelli V Spann

“This is the land of your father, and his father before him. Your history is embedded in this soil. No country in the world will love you as yours does.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform slowly into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them.”[3]”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“For the entirety of my life, I saw myself as strong, impenetrable. You get harder in the broken places, and you carry on.”
― Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten

“How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another’s will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill! . . . . . . . This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself though not of lands; And having nothing yet hath all.” —SIR HENRY WOTTON.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch