Stacy-Ann

“Not every flower belongs in every garden.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Forgiveness is about a mind-set of letting go.” She thought for a second, then said, “It’s about acknowledging to yourself that someone hurt you, and accepting that.” Done, I thought. “Then it’s about accepting that the person who hurt you is flawed, like all people are, and letting that guide you to a better, more nuanced understanding of what happened. Flawed, I thought. Okay. Check. “And then there’s a third part,” she went on, “probably the hardest, that involves trying to look at the aftermath of what happened and find ways that you benefited, not just ways you were harmed.” I”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“The world we carry inside us produces answers, sometimes. A way of escape. A flight from reality”
― Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

“If a black woman had been killed every day on Sunset Boulevard for a year, nothing would have been done. Not until the white woman died.”
― Walter Mosley