Michaela Roby

“I’d pretended I was fine, pretended I’d moved on, but the truth was, the past was still open inside me, like a half-cracked door, because it was a raw, unhealed wound.”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“Sometimes beautiful things get messy. Mess is okay.”
― Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

“Oh, but history moved in such vicious circles.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“A woman who wanted was an ugly thing. I knew it made me childish and vulnerable. My whole life had taught me that lesson. But still. For one moment, laid out on the grass, all my ruined, pointless, pent-up wanting was too great to contain—”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife