Zella

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Jamie Anderson

“Some people sought comfort from smoking, after discovering that their loved one had just been killed by the cancer.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“When boys called our names, we said 'Don't even say my name. Don't even put it in your mouth.' When they said, 'You ugly anyway,' we knew they were lying. When they hollered, 'Conceited!' we said, 'No- convinced!' We watched them dip-walk away, too young to know how to respond. The four of us together wasn't something they understood. They understood girls alone, folding their arms across their breasts, praying for invisibility.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn