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

“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

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“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