Ajachukwu

“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can’t quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die.
But that is the mirage.
That is grief’s dizzying spell.
The fall isn’t never-ending. It does have a ground floor.
Today, I cry for so long that I finally feel the floor under my feet. I find the bottom.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Life is an ambivalent lover. One moment, you are everything and life wants to consume you entirely. The next moment, you are an insignificant speck of nothing. Meaningless.”
― Francesca Ekwuyasi, Butter Honey Pig Bread

“But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?”
― Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

“Books mattered, because girls who are at their most real in book pages are sometimes the only reason alive girls get through their years at all.”
― Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!