Tyler Yedlin

“it was going to be a place that let a little Black girl know that she was beautiful. Not beautiful “too”—there was no need to factor in a certain criterion of beauty that centered whiteness. The pride should be based solely on her own self. Black is beautiful.”
― Tina Knowles, Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir

“ANYONE WHO IS NOT IN LOVE anyone who is not in love cannot be as light as a soul like moon and stars cannot be orbiting restlessly hear it from me as the final word a flag can never dance with no air and no wind”
― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi

“The first rule of witchery is to acknowledge your deficits.” “How would you know?” “That’s the first rule of everything, really.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Witch of Maracoor

“if all of it hadn’t happened, would we still be us? Or is the miracle of our relationship the result of a precise combination of tragedies that broke us both so completely that when we collided, we became something entirely new?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm