Elijah Dougherty

“Grief is a place a person goes alone.”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“As if purpose could solve everything, could take the outlines of what was missing and by sheer will invoke it, make it appear, bring it back to life.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon