Dora

“IT’S A TRUTH universally acknowledged that when rich people move into the hood, where it’s a little bit broken and a little bit forgotten, the first thing they want to do is clean it up. But it’s not just the junky stuff they’ll get rid of. People can be thrown away too, like last night’s trash left out on sidewalks or pushed to the edge of wherever all broken things go. What those rich people don’t always know is that broken and forgotten neighborhoods were first built out of love.”
― Ibi Zoboi, Pride

“It takes time. Grief takes a lot of forms, and it stays with you until the end of your days. Isn't that right?”
― Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies

“secrets are best kept hidden, because sometimes people aren’t ready to hear the truth. And that’s okay, King, he said, because you don’t need other people to know the truth also. Just as long as you got that truth in you.”
― Kacen Callender, King and the Dragonflies

“It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers