Adwoa

“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
― Warsan Shire

“Our capacity to love grows with time. It grows with every new person who touches our lives. So I love you more because my heart is bigger.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Fortuity

“It's okay to hold on to her. It's okay if you never really move on. It's okay if you never find that kind of love again because she was the one, and no one else will ever come close. Take some sage advice from someone who knows... threesomes don't work. If your heart can't let go, then you will take her with you into every new relationship. And even though she's dead and no one can see her... they will feel her.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Fortuity

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me