Jada

“We must listen to the women who came before us. We change the future by unloading the sorrow of the past. We sever the cord of generational curses. Some cords are meant to shrivel away to blackened dead flesh. They are our blood, but we are not them. We do not have to accept it. None of it.”
― V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

“When a spouse dies, you become a widow or widower, but there is no word for what you become when you lose a child. Perhaps it’s because there is simply no language to describe that kind of devastation.”
― Greer Hendricks, A Show of Faith