Keyshae

“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“It's the great undoing of my heart as I know it.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing

“I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“When they ask you
where you're from,
tell them your name
was fleshed from the toothless mouth
of a war-woman.
That you were not born
but crawled, headfirst --
into the hunger of dogs. My son, tell them
the body is a blade that sharpens
by cutting.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds