Kat Bee

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Izella shook her thoughts away again, trying to reorganize herself into the sister with the right answer. Best thing for everybody was no baby. No baby for Evangelist to know about, no baby to send Walter into the shakes, no baby to split Ola from a girl into a mama.”
― Randi Pink, Girls Like Us

“A fly on the wall would’ve thought it strange--a daughter telling her mother she’s pregnant and the mother quietly taking it in. But this is how they were. It had always been the two of them quietly against the whole world. While her horrible father fought for his own political photo ops, they were there like this together. Always.”
― Randi Pink, Girls Like Us