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“I love you, Frankie. My love for you is fundamental to who I am. It’s deep in my bones. A sonnet written in the marrow.”
― Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm

“And the female body, so many of whose workings remain medically mysterious even in an otherwise enlightened age, and so revered for its ability to grow, nurture, protect, and eventually give forth new life, also remains a vessel into which we can place all manner of things: blame, ignorance, incuriosity, fear.”
― Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

“Our love was many things, but flimsy wasn't one of them. We were stubborn in our own ways, we bickered, he clammed up and I lashed out, but the material of which our bond was made wouldn't allow us to drift. It needed a severance, a brutal tectonic cleaving. Our love was obtrusive and decadent. It coated us, soaked us and maybe that issue. It overwhelmed us, bent our bones till we broke.”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat

“It lands in me and wreaks havoc on my reasoning.”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat