Cristi

“We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones.”
― Dizz Tate, Brutes

“The takeaway of these stories seemed to be that our legacy was one of humiliation and suffering. Life treated those who came before me with relentless indignity, and I had a moral obligation to live better than them. Living better than them did not mean making my own choices. It meant honoring the choices my ancestors would have wanted for me.”
― Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel

“We know which mothers are praying, which mothers are offering dirty explanations, which mothers are already crying, which mothers are asking too many questions. We know every type of mother.”
― Dizz Tate, Brutes

“Every happiness held its own ruin inside it, like a glass we were about to smash.”
― Dizz Tate, Brutes