Grinning Cat

“Live, kiddo, fuckin’ live hard, love insanely and marry crazy. Because when the blood pumps through your veins, that’s when you know you’re alive.”
― Elizabeth N. Harris, Falcon

“There are at least two things someone can do to convince me to never take them seriously: (a) engage in bad-faith arguments about people being “canceled” when what they’re really referring to is people being called out and/or held accountable for their actions, and (b) accuse someone of “making everything about race” merely for pointing out something racist.”
― Aisha Harris, Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me – A New York Times Best Read and Cultural Critic's Essays on Nineties Black Identity

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."  Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (movie)”
― MaryJanice Davidson, A Snicker of Werewolves

“many of us hope that we might be “cured by love.” But love is not the same as penicillin.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us