Ash B

“I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it.”
― Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

“Some things continue forever. Maybe anger is like a river,

maybe it crumbles everything around it, maybe it hides
so many skeletons beneath the rolling surface.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I'm me," she whispered. "Me"
Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exactly what she meant.
"I'm me. I'm not their daughter. I'm not Nel. I'm me. Me."
Every time she said the word me there was a gathering in her like power, like joy, like fear. Back in bed with her discovery, she stared out the window at the dark leaves of the horse chestnut.
"Me," she murmured. And then, sinking deeper into the quilts, "I want... I want to be... wonderful. Oh, Jesus, make me wonderful.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“I was an aspiration, a flame he wanted to kiss. But for her, he would have lit the entire island. I was a smart decision. She made a dreamer of him. & well, for the child that came, he sacrificed it all. He loved you both. Understand that. A part of me even thinks he might have loved”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land