“ Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning. Nova Ren Suma
“ Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for. Nova Ren Suma
“ The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there. Nova Ren Suma
“ They forgot who she was: Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our lov… Nova Ren Suma
“ There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too. Nova Ren Suma
“ I could tell he wanted the best for me. Of course, he assumed that would be getting out. Everyone always thought that, not of what we had to go back to, at home. Maybe our parents had thrown away our… Nova Ren Suma
“ My own drawing was a house made of books, but where there should have been a door, there was a book, and where there should have been windows, there were books, and where the chimney should have been… Nova Ren Suma
“ I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones. Nova Ren Suma
“ It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's already talking about and see what you can find on your own.Making definit… Nova Ren Suma
