Jessica Cramer

“She was right to be cautious about coming to a place like this, I know. These days, the danger of just being alive and in public is practically as American as fireworks on the Fourth or apple pie or voter suppression. But this. This is what it's all about. You take your chances going to the movies or out to eat or to a concert because this is what it feels like to be alive.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“I wanted to hold her hand, to quiet the impulses that made it impossible for her to sit still, but I didn't want to disrespect whatever music she heard.”
― Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

“Because saying things out loud imbued them with a certain kind of power, and I did not want to give power to the idea that something might have happened to Annabella.”
― Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

“And that was comforting, too. That each person could choose what brought them closest to belonging, the power in that. Knowing that one day, people might discover even better words for it. That there was only ever freedom in continuing to find new names for who we were, who we could be.”
― Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters