gabrielle

“I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“Look, we are not unspectacular things. We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying: Poems

“Will you tell us the stories that make
us uncomfortable, but not complicit?”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“What if, instead of carrying

a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying