Sloane

“Living in a female body, a Black body, an aging body, a fat body, a body with mental illness is to awaken daily to a planet that expects a certain set of apologies to already live on our tongues. There is a level of “not enough” or “too much” sewn into these strands of difference.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be kind in a world as cruel as ours.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

“I don't need company,' I [Benjamin Kierney] said. 'I'm just thinking about things.'

'Your fate,' the Lord said.

'Something like that.'

'Perhaps I can help.'

I actually laughed. 'Why? If I were God, I would have given up on me long ago.'

'But you are not,' he said, 'and I never will.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat

“Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul. “I know the tears you shed, Benjamin. When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep.” She smiled. “But I promise you, those who leave do not.”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat