Shannon Burdett

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Everyone—all my patients—think they’re supposed to play it cool about these changes”—now she was checking my moles—“but ‘freaking out’ actually plays an important role in transitions. Picture how the vaginal canal squeezes the water out of a baby’s lungs—it’s the shock of this squeezing and the sudden cold air that makes the baby cry out and take their first breath!” She inhaled so I inhaled, too. “The trauma itself prepares them for the next phase, life on Earth.” The next phase. Right. Now that I wasn’t crying out about the cliff (the slide, the stairs, whatever) I could wonder about what came after.”
― Miranda July, All Fours

“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“I dreamed of healing Isora's sadness, I wanted to be her dog and I wanted her to be my saint with scraped knees.”
― Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro