Veronica Rush

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula