Cheryl

“if you were fortunate enough to have people you liked in your life, you could create your own family. Family was whom you chose, and it could be comprised of those who made you feel most loved and appreciated.”
― Jerry McGill, Bed Stuy

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It’s weird but, like, I think we underestimate this shit. Just how many of us are a hair’s breadth away from losing all of our shit at any given moment.”
― Jerry McGill, Bed Stuy

“just because someone is family does not mean you have to like them. Family can hurt you in the same ways, if not worse, than the stranger on the street.”
― Jerry McGill, Bed Stuy