Shannah-marie

“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.

“My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.”
― Caroline Kettlewell, Skin Game

“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

“You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward