“But children have resilience. Children scar and those scars remain across the years, but children grow too. Kettle grew around her hurts and learned to laugh again – learned wickedness as they taught her scripture – learned the swiftness of her body and the sharpness of her mind. She grew into a woman and learned to love and to be loved.”

“But children have resilience. Children scar and those scars remain across the years, but children grow too. Kettle grew around her hurts and learned to laugh again – learned wickedness as they taught her scripture – learned the swiftness of her body and the sharpness of her mind. She grew into a woman and learned to love and to be loved.”

— Mark Lawrence