Nicky

“Racialized medicine no longer maintained that high rates of consumption among white people was a sign of white superiority; instead, racialized medicine maintained that high rates of consumption among Black people was a sign of white superiority.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“But as I reflect on the many incongruities of my childhood, I can’t help but feel sadness for the baby girl who cried for her mother. Who wanted a different kind of love than the kind she received. A love that allows for vulnerability, for tears, for the full range of human emotion. A love that allows a child the freedom to feel.”
― Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

“Sight, the clutch of his pupils to mine. Hearing, his breathing low and shallow. Smell, whiskey and woodsmoke, maybe cedar. And taste—that one, I’m almost afraid to know. Maybe it’s better not to know what I’m missing.”
― Katie Naymon, You Between the Lines

“To the ones who hunger—
for love, for time, or simply to be free”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil