Melody

“We haunt the past to refuse to let it lie comfortably as it was.”
― Imani Perry, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

“I think we all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them?”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“Healing always begins with a diagnosis. But then again, so does dying.”
― Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know

“I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.”
― Eli Brown, Cinnamon and Gunpowder