Emily Calvert

“There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, about how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.”
― Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark

“In that moment, we were happy, the happy that radiates and changes the atmosphere of a room. The happy that feels bottomless and covers faults. The happy that makes you believe you will be able to withstand everything.”
― Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes

“Black boys don't get a long boyhood. It ends where white fear begins, brought on by deepening voices, broadening backs, and coarsening hair in new places beneath our clothing. Then there's our skin, which provides little middle ground.”
― Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods

“Her mother lived in a world of black and white, and Eva knew that neither of those colors existed, not really; it was all a spectrum of gray.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names