jade ☀

“It never occurred to her to doubt her welcome. Such was the gift of a child raised with love.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

“He clearly felt awe and respect for these two women but also was not bothered by the fact that they lived a razor’s edge from death. He knew it likely helped that they were Black women; market research found that the public generally cared less for their survival. In the center of the complicated nexus of adored and hated, desired but also easy to watch being destroyed, it had to be a Black woman.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“I thought about how the world can be anything and how said it is that it's this.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Why can’t life work whatever way we want it to? What’s the point of living if you only do it how others want you to?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea