shell

“If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
writing the
truth when you're terrified.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

“cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans. who sometimes give birth to their pain. instead of children. – hate”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me