Emmalita

“What good is a coherent narrative if people don’t want to hear it? Because trauma won’t leave you alone until you feel safe, and safety is not something that an individual can summon on their own. Safety is not a gun. Safety is being able to trust that those around you WANT to protect you from harm. But if those around you don’t believe you are “like them,” then they will focus on the discomfort you make them feel, and that discomfort is not a safe space.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“I like all your worst qualities.”
― Courtney Milan, The Duke Who Didn't

“The question has never been who my list is about,” Jeremy told her. “It’s been about whether she’ll have me.”
― Courtney Milan, The Duke Who Didn't

“I feel very Eat, Pray, Love right now, but specifically that scene in the movie where Julia Roberts just cries. Yeah. I feel like that but Black and tipsy.”
― Katrina Jackson, The Hitman