Martha :)

“I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“A child's want in a woman's heart is dangerous”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“& how could i have known, that by pressing this pen to paper I was touching us back from extinction?”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds