Amy

“Our grief is for the same person, but our grief is not the same.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“I listen to these people I don’t know use the past tense about my mother, the person who brought me into this world and created my present. They are past-tensing my heart—my whole beating, bleeding, torn heart—right in front of me.”
― Tracey Deaonn

“ZÉLIE’S PAIN FALLS through the air like rain.
It sinks into my skin.
My chest heaves with her sobs. My heart rips with her anguish.
And all the while I feel a terror unlike anything I’ve ever known. It crushes my soul.
It destroys all will to live.
This can’t be her world.…
This can’t be the life Father built. But the longer her pain grips me, the more I realize: this fear is always there.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Thrice is a pattern.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun