Afolabi Adedoyin

“So, a boy stands, then kneels in a pool of moonlight at midnight in his parents’ garden, asking God to kill him for being him. Then he looks up and God says a decisive no with not just one, but all the beautiful mouths They have. That’s it, that’s the story. And the lesson, love, is this: If your own god keeps failing you, God can show you another.”
― Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

“A lie:

'Opposites attract.'

The truth?
Magnets attract.
Opposites fit together like (fucked up) puzzle pieces.

And when you're fucked up, there are more important things than attraction.

Like distraction. Like destruction.

Opposites distract.
Opposites destroy.
Opposites decimate.
Opposites detonate.

Opposites are fun as hell,

until they aren't.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

“Lies:

'Love is blind.'
'Time heals all wounds.'

The truth?
Love can see just fine. But it's nearsighted.
Shortsighted.
And distance is the only thing that heals.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You

“I didn't know that would be the last time I'd see him, his neck scar lit blue by the diner's neon marquee. To see that little comma again, to put my mouth there, let my shadow widen the scar until, at last, there was no scar to be seen at all, just a vast and equal dark sealed by my lips. A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous