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

“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

“Caring meant being courageous enough to be fully present with one another. One did not have to be useful or whole or even remotely healed as long as they were present, willing to bear themselves - their full, vulnerable selves - to others and allow their history of hurt to be transformed into a wellspring of healing.”
― Maurice Broaddus, Sweep of Stars