Emily Grace

“It always made me nervous, looking for something that someone already sees. It's like you have to find it quickly, lest they think you foolish, and there is that odd sensation while they are waiting for your eyes to capture what theirs have already seized.”
― Courtney Maum, Costalegre

“The surrealists think that passion is important, that nightmares are important. But they don't value simplicity, which is how I think of love. That patient, tense, and quiet thing that is leaving someone alone.”
― Courtney Maum, Costalegre

“Sometimes I've been going about my day, dwelling on this or that, something insignificant and ephemeral, and have been jolted out of my thoughts by a bird flying by or a face in the street or the light reaching through the clouds and have found myself wanting to hit the back button. But the moment was gone, passed irretrievably into the past, and I hadn't even been paying proper attention while it was there.”
― Jo Lloyd, Something Wonderful: Stories

“Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life.”
― Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman