Caitlyn

“When you're fifteen, you can't make promises of a return to the before place. Your aging eyes tell a different, truer story.

Linden, Palmetto, Evergreen, Decatur, Woodbine- this neighborhood began as a forest. And now the streets were named for the trees that once lived here.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn