Rae Anderson > Quotes

“Time is a construct of something we’re incapable of controlling and can barely comprehend. Time doesn’t exist. Time never was. Past, present, and future—all are the same—occurring all at once.”
― Rae Anderson, Letters to Prime: Prisoner 926179

“In parenting, you don’t get a reward for showing up for participation. Presence, attunement, and nurturing were as necessary as the air we breathe.”
― Rae Anderson, The Saxophonist

“think you have to speak to your future like it’s standing in the room listening.”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“Despite the world of fun we had together, I was still hesitant about leaving the country with him. There was something I couldn’t quite put my finger on, which gave me pause about the entire idea. Instead of delving too deep into my head and overthinking”
― Rae Anderson, Saint

“I think dreams are evidence of travel to other realms as our physical bodies sleep.”
― Rae Anderson, Letters to Prime: Prisoner 926179

“You pour into you. I’ll pour into me. We’ll both be watered and through that, we’ll find ways to water each other. How does that sound?”
― Rae Anderson, The Saxophonist

“Shit, with all the hips, thighs, and ass in my possession, her nigga would’ve been took.”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“Because care, when real, wasn’t only a grip. Sometimes it’s an opening. Sometimes it’s a hand that knows when to unclench.”
― Rae Anderson, Ykima: The Salt House

“spiritual side of me spoke, saying this was way more than what met the eye.”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“I’d be damned to let a hoe scratch up my face. I fought demons with Psalms and candles. ”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“giver often didn’t locate fellow givers. Often, we attracted takers. Often, we gave until there was nothing left. Often, the love we desired—the love we gave was taken for granted. This time, I was giving my love to a giver.”
― Rae Anderson, The Saxophonist

“What hit first was her energy. It was demanding and fussy, glittering with self-importance. Everything about her said curated. Sis wanted the marriage to photograph better than it lived.”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“Fucking Melanie was just a novelty. A change of taste. Something on the side to break the sameness, nothing more. Mel didn’t mean shit to me. Not in the ways that counted. Not in the ways Aoki did.”
― Rae Anderson, Yoyo: Return to Sender

“He knew how to love a woman with room in her, with tide in her, with more than one shore in her heart.”
― Rae Anderson, Ykima: The Salt House

“Baby, your soul sparse.”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“Because flowers, like women, could be coached into form while dying a little at the stem.”
― Rae Anderson, Nyomi: Hex at a Wedding

“Love was performative, not fucking verbalized.”
― Rae Anderson, The Saxophonist

“Similar to PTSD, post-incarceration syndrome includes difficulty trusting others, social disorientation, anxiety, and trouble readjusting to life.”
― Rae Anderson, The Saxophonist

“I’d gone ghost for good dick, soft sheets and the illusion of being chosen. I’d traded chorus for a solo and got played anyway.”
― Rae Anderson, Yoyo: Return to Sender

“Embrace your weirdness. Embrace that authentic version of you. Everybody ain’t able. Some souls are so heavily masked that they fear their own reflection.”
― Rae Anderson, Letters to Prime: Prisoner 926179