Satara

“Why is it that I must always worry about tomorrows?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Sometimes the things that could have happened affect us almost as much as the things that did.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Coming Home

“Oh, you get the truck. But you also get pulled over four or five times a month because ain’t no way your Black ass can afford a nice truck like this, right? You get the truck but you get followed around in the jewelry store because you know you probably fitting to rob the place, right? You can get the truck but you gotta deal with white ladies clutching their purses when you walk down the street because Fox News done told them you coming to steal their money and their virtue. You get the truck but then you gotta explain to some trigger-happy cop that no, Mr. Officer, you’re not resisting arrest. You get the truck but then you also get two in the back of the head because you reached for your cell phone,” Ike said. He glanced at Buddy Lee.”
― S.A. Cosby, Razorblade Tears

“Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea