Byron Adams

“Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.”
― bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life

“If I were a different kind of person, I might say that this whole incident is a metaphor for life in general: things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.”
― R.H. Sin

“he feels he isn’t so much living as he is merely existing,”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life