Tesia Summers

“What you’re saying is that if someone pays you enough, it’s okay to abandon what you have claimed to understand as moral and right.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Death isn't the only way to die, though it can be argued that it is the most merciful.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“It is impossible to believe that any of us ever looked like children. I understand, of course, that we were once children. The cloak of time has yet to grow so long that I have surrendered my childhood.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.”
― Sofia Tolstoy, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy: A Chronicle of Marriage to Leo Tolstoy and Turbulent Turn-of-the-Century Russia