sumi subramanian

“Nina flung herself into the arms of Billy Elk. Nina threw herself on Jesse and tried to save him with her own breath. This was all I knew of love and mercy. The line blurred. Passion and salvation seemed like the same thing, like something I'd wanted my whole life.”
― Melanie Rae Thon, Meteors in August: A Novel

“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, and admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye