“You can't make people love you. Love isn't something you earn, or something you deserve. Love just is. Or it isn't. Anyway, there are more important things than love. Like service. Being of service. With love, you're waiting around for… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“That's who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods.” — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“It's not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy, and satiate. Our girls are both the platter and… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“I'll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“I kind of felt like now that I had ahold of her, I'd better hang on tight.” — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“As long as there have been women," Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.” — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“The thing about life, I thought as Star drank his mother's warm milk, is that you have to choose it. And then you have… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“I'm more than any of the parts of me—I am more than my good parts, and more than my bad ones. I am more… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
“The way I see it," Bekah says, "you've got to do the things that make you feel good. Being active--doing things, making things better… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
