Jenelle Pierre

“But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
― Confucius

“Ariya was tall and fine-boned, with large doe-eyes framed by long lashes. She moved about the one-story house with a self-possessed grace in her purple dress. We thought she would make a good model. She could sell anything but perfume, because she always had a smell: parsley, cilantro, chicken, goat, sour sop, shop cheese.”
― Jenelle Jack Pierre, Someone Else, Somewhere Else