Aashlesha

“She thought if she’d said she liked reading, the others would label her an introvert, so when several girls ahead of her said they liked karaoke, she copied them.”
― Philip Gabriel, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“I met a girl
who holds me
like she is fighting
for me
in her sleep.
If you ever decide to age,
love, invite me.
I’ll retire my bones
to make you tea,
and read you poetry.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King