Sammi

“The [bird's] nest with its streamers was a final unbidden touch: It was what human hands had not brought to the building, and could not remove. It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: It had been complicated, and thereby perfected, by what time had done to it.”
― Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

“For girls, becoming women was inevitability. For boys, becoming men was ambition.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

“Misogyny is explicitly, visibly incentivized and rewarded. You can watch it self-perpetuate in front of your eyes.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me