Maya

“I said I loved her. That was when all the problems started”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“Remember Rio de Janeiro, the size of God’s hand, sardines fleshed-open at the market, the way I entered you and moved inside? Looking down, is this the kind of density you can live with? What is the slightness of our bodies to stay, to be good at loving a second time? My mouth pretends it is an oar when it lives inside your mouth, but you are far away.”
― Stacie Cassarino, Zero at the Bone

“5'10" I seem 5'8" I seem 6'2" I seem dead.”
― Daphne Gottlieb, 15 Ways to Stay Alive

“Do more than:Stop self-destructing. Save each other. Not have a nervous breakdown or six by twenty five. Decolonize our minds, our hair, our hearts. Transform into the phoenixes we were all meant to be.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha