D’see has held my heart in her small fist from the moment she arrived on this world, all confidence.
“I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.”
― Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
― Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice-and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.”
― Sourdough
― Sourdough
“Sometimes when people hurt for a long time, they start to think that hurting is part of who they are. And then anything that helps the hurt, even healing, feels like it’s trying to strip part of them away.”
― What Stalks the Deep
― What Stalks the Deep
“That is very horrifying and I want to go home," I said, although I pronounced it, "Ah. I see.”
― What Stalks the Deep
― What Stalks the Deep
“Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.”
― Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
― Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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