Marcella

“Grief is a ghost that visits without warning. It comes in the night and rips you from your sleep. It fills your chest with shards of glass. It interrupts you mid-laugh when you’re at a party, chastising you that, just for a moment, you’ve forgotten. It haunts you until it becomes a part of you, shadowing you breath for breath.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“a woman will tell you
every home she has ever inhabited
has been broken into
starting with her body”
― Suheir Hammad, Zaatar Diva

“Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Even if you are a small forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary.”
― Nayyirah Waheed