Jennifer

“Living happened till it didn’t. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“When I gained the faculty to speak my story, I realized I had given men too much.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“What if letting my dream die makes me all bitter and angry and cranky—and if I never get to do and be the thing I love, how will anyone ever see me, or know me, or love me?”
― Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody

“America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad