Chantale

“What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Ask: if flexing is being able to say the most in the fewest number of words, is there a greater flex than love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“There’s so much more you wish to say but there aren’t the words.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water