energy rightly applied and directed could accomplish anything.

Desire and its attainment can provoke strikingly opposing thoughts in a person.

A book is never what it seems.

I learned something in that moment; you’re on your own in this world. No one is coming to save you. People don’t suddenly change, say they’re sorry and begin to treat you with respect. They are a jumble of hurt and pain and they will take it out on whomever they can. I had to save myself.

always said that books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives.

Who is to say what treasures are yet to be rediscovered, what lost things are waiting to be brought to light?

It was their pride or my future and I could not, would not, sacrifice myself on the altar of their expectations.