Mandi

“I do not exist just to move plot. While I am a supportive friend, I am not a supporting character. I am the protagonist of my perfectly imperfect story.”
― Ziwe Fumudoh, Black Friend: Funny, incisive essays on navigating Blackness, tokenism, and friendship in predominantly white spaces.

“Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open. If we’re not open to losing, we’re not open to loving.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

“Common law had it that conjugal rights were forever, at any time, at any place, and by any means necessary. Marital rape, then, was an impossibility, an unresolvable paradox. How can you rape someone when the law says she is permanently, and irrevocably, at your beck and call, subject to your every whim, however violent and damaging?”
― Sarah Weinman, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

“But trust comes with quiet reliability.”
― Jay Shetty, 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go