Joanna

“My life is cozy, but I'm starting to let myself think I want something wet and aching stabbed through it. I want something substantial. I want to gorge myself. Excess.”
― Mary Ann Rivers, The Story Guy

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“This new happiness had angles. Happiness like his was real; it had a jewel-cut shadow, and he could lose it.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry