Amy

“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present. It's even worse when you're angry at the person. Not just for dying. But for how.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“When Mama tucks me in at night, her eyes tell me I'm a miracle.”
― Joanna Ho, Eyes that Kiss in the Corners

“Well, fact is, Zora clung to those words tighter than Brer Fox would've clung to Brer Rabbit, if he'd ever been able to catch him.”
― Alicia D. Williams, Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

“She has a pretty face, which is the same thing as ugly when a woman is fat. In the complex calculus between men and women, Milly, understands that fat is always ugly and that ugly and skinny makes a woman eminently more desirable than fat and any combination such as beautiful, charming, intelligent, or kind. Milly is ally those things.”
― Roxane Gay