Tasfia

“We keep thinking there are only these two choices: We either grow apart or grow together. But maybe we can just kind of each grow on our own, and see how it goes. And then later, if it’s right, we’ll come back to each other and start again.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

“From here on out, Reena's life was going to be hard. She would have to work hard to get the job, and hard to keep it, and even harder to get promoted, and any promotion she received would lead only to more work, more responsibilities, more hours in the office, and in the meantime she would have to squeeze out a few free hours a week to do everything else: date, stay fit, buy groceries, see friends. If she was one of the lucky ones, she would keep receiving small little bumps to her salary - smaller, of course, than the bumps her male colleagues received, but no matter. Reena would grow used to this quickly: the simple act of receiving less than she wanted at the same exact time she watched someone else receive more than she could have hoped for.”
― Caro Claire Burke, Yesteryear

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Did you win? he asks.
It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric