Cherie

“It was a wonderful feeling to be grown and yet young. To be married but not settled. To be tied down yet free.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing