Kelli Chen

“What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where blood could flow.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“We’re getting old, he thought, and it damn sure didn’t take long.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski