Jana

“A town always looked different once you'd returned, like a house where all the furniture had been shifted three inches. You wouldn't mistake it for a stranger's house but you'd keep banging your shins on the table corners.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“But that's the way it goes. I lost nearly everything, and then I built something better”
― Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena

“he makes he feel like she's back in south London, then she catches herself, it's not as cut and dried as it was before, he could be a relative, if there's one thing she's learned in the past forty-eight hours, anyone can be a relative”
― Bernadine evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other