Maria

“i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“That was the thrill of youth, the idea that you could be anyone. That was what had captured her in the charm shop, all those years ago. Then adulthood came, your choices solidifying, and you realize that everything you are had been set in motion years before. The rest was aftermath.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half