Rhianna Turrell

“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
― john lennon

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“I feel a thick cord. It connects my spirit to a memory that I have tried to forget. I have pretended it wasn’t there, and I drank or even smoked my way around it when I was younger. Then I buried the memory under accomplishment. My story is stalled here, as if the cord has choked off the rest of the story and I cannot move forward. As the story maker, I have to find a way. First, I need to speak and remember what I do not want to remember. Even now, years later, when my mother is gone, even the monster is gone, I have come to understand they do not want the haunting either. They want to move on.”
― Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior

“She taught me that there is no separation between being a poet and being a mother and a lover. All are warrior roles.”
― Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior