Abbey

“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Can't nothing bother me when I got my hands in the dirt, he said. Like I'm talking to God with my fingers.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing