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

“And you can make yourself look any way you want to, but if you think it’s gonna get the hurt inside you to disappear, you sure wrong. So if you’re asking me if I think you’d be prettier if you was skinny as a reed, you’re askin’ the wrong person. I don’t much care if you’re skinny or pretty, and don’t you start thinking they’re the same thing, but I sure as hell am always gonna think you prettiest when you’re breathing, when you’re fed and housed and happy.”
― Leila Mottley, The Girls Who Grew Big

“We rotate, ripple, revolve, so you can’t know one of us without knowing all of us, love one of us without loving the metal scrape of the truck we found, gave, claimed life inside.”
― 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