Shannah-marie

“Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”
― Rupi Kaur

“illegitimate children is such a foreign concept to me. i was born from my mother and i am here. that is all the legitimacy i need. – the bastard construct”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“There’s nothing rebellious about loving something that can’t love you. You’re a woman, you should have known that men in the city would split you in half searching for their fathers in between your legs.”
― Warsan Shire

“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying