Kerry

“Don't ask me to repent because I regret nothing. You can't save me because I'm not in peril.”
― Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

“She would nuzzle him, beginning to understand that just because he didn't see something in her didn't mean it wasn't there, knowing there was still some freedom in the way he did not fathom yet how real and how necessary her ruthlessness would be.”
― Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

“My mother had never known me either, though it wasn't because I hadn't given her a chance. I'd given her a lot of chances. What was saddest was that she didn't seem to want to know me, not as I was on the inside. I wasn't even sure if she could grasp that I had an inside, that I was real. Sometimes it seemed impossible that she had ever given birth to me at all. Other times, it made perfect sense that I had lived inside her for so long. It explained why she could only see me as an extension of herself.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“there is no story of this country not founded in forcible vanishings”
― Jamie Hood, How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany