Rose

“LOSS COMES IN every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is past will never come again.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Our eyes perceive so dimly, and our brains are so easily confused. Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

“Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.

But my tongue stirred anyway. I stepped into view and threw something of my own.”
― Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky