Nat Carroll

“Poppy... there may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but today is not that day.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

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

“perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search of a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“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