Donnie McDow

“My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what’s necessary to defend a woman.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…”
― Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Shocking True Story of One Addict's Double Life

“just ’cause a thing’s impossible don’t mean it can’t happen.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River