Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.

My mother... She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.