ela.

“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“In fairy tales, a kiss marks a threshold—between the state of being cursed or cured lies a kiss. But not all kisses cure; some kill. Thresholds go both ways, after all. I wasn’t thinking about this when Indigo drew me to her beneath the chandeliers of her Paris hotel. At the time, I wished only to trap her laughter under glass. I could not hear, back then, how uncannily triumphant the sound was.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

“Forgetting was not the same as healing.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“your hand
touching mine.
this is how
galaxies
collide.”
― Sanober Khan