Megan

“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, not concerned about it or—still less—my unfinished garden.”
― Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“i hardened under the last loss. it took something human out of me. i used to be so deeply emotional i’d crumble on demand. but now the water has made its exit. of course i care about the ones around me. i’m just struggling to show it. a wall is getting in the way. i used to dream of being so strong nothing could shake me. now. i am. so strong. that nothing shakes me. and all i dream is to soften.”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Dear God, if you are a season, let it be the one I passed through
to get here.

Here. That's all I wanted to be.

I promise.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds