Frida

“Grave is home, grave is lineage. Grave is to know where your people is, even if you can't see them anymore.”
― Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

“Just kids' isn't a thing. Important stuff happens to kids. Kids do important stuff.”
― Kate Clayborn, Georgie, All Along

“Yejide don't have the heart to tell him that is not only headstones that make a place a burial ground. Under the Green, under fancy restaurants that used to be plantation houses, under the government buildlings, under the housing complexes, under the shopping malls, is layers and layers of dead — unknown, unnamed, unclaimed. It don't have a single place on this whole island that don't house the dead.”
― Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

“And that's it? He keeps trying?" It's incredibly unfair that Ardolino has to spend the rest of his life making that kind of effort, possibly failing, and trying again.

To his surprise, Price grins at him. "Eddie, baby, that's what we're all doing.”
― Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky