Jaclynn

“A pool made you feel invincible, but an ocean did the opposite. It reminded you what a fragile thing you were, how every cell that made you up was nothing in comparison to the waves that could take you down as quickly as a bullet shot through your softest skin.”
― Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

“You remember how much safer it is to not want nothing at all.”
― Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

“And if you think I don’t make sense with all of them just ’cause I’m white, you wouldn’t believe what happens when a girl these days gets knocked up. Suddenly, it’s the most important thing about you. Suddenly, you don’t have green eyes or a two-bedroom shack on Willow Street or straight A’s in Biology. You are nothing but a young mother.”
― Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

“If there's an opposite if sea sick, I think that's what the bay does to me. Everything stills the moment the scent of salt hits me. Ocean breeze wrapped around my exposed waist. Wind exacerbating the knots in my hair. It ain't that I feel free, but I feel home. Probably more home than I do anywhere else. Which is ironic, 'cause it's blue too, and I know I'd drown the moment the waves took me in.”
― Leila Mottley