Nat Carroll

“She could live another fifty years, love and leave a hundred cities, press her fingerprints into a thousand turnstiles and plane tickets, and Jane would still be there at the bottom of her heart. This girl from Brooklyn she just can't shake.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“...the worship that is drowned in water. All water is connected. All freshwater comes out of the mouth of the python”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“I found it strange that no word exists for a parent who loses a child. If children lose their parents, they are orphans. If a husband loses his wife, he’s a widower. But there’s no word for a parent who loses a child. I’ve come to believe that the event is just too big, too monstrous, too overwhelming for words. No word could ever describe the feeling, so we leave it unsaid.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“I am here and not here, real and not real... I am my others; we are one and we are many.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater