Jasmyne

“AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES, our shadows grow longer. At night, in the dark, we become our shadows.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“for me there is no other. because there is no default. everyone is a variation of life. – the human being | the human gender | the human sex”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when the word means both things? Or a time when the word doesn't mean anything at all?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“SWEET: granular, powdered, brown, slow like honey or molasses. The mouth-coating sugars in milk. Once, when we were wild, sugar intoxicated us, the first narcotic we craved and languished in. We’ve tamed, refined it, but the juice from a peach still runs like a flash flood.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter