Ashley

“Just be yourself, she said. Which self, I wanted to reply.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“A strange smile wavered just around his face, not yet in his face,”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“We’re going to sit down somewhere until this rush hour’s over. You and me, we’ve got to talk anyway, before we talk to Mama and Daddy. They don’t know yet. I haven’t talked to them yet.” And I realize how much Ernestine loves me, at the same time that I remember that she is, after all, only four years older than I.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“That’s what shame is: responding pleasantly to someone who deserves a slap in the face.”
― Virginie Despentes, Dear Dickhead