Michelle

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved