Lou

“There are no righteous deaths,” Yongcheow whispered. “Only ones that cannot be avoided.”
― J.Y. Yang, The Black Tides of Heaven

“Do not ever let anyone tell you that you do not belong here,” she had said, looking at us intently. “We all do. There is space for us all.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky

“If I’m going to wage battle with demons both on the street and in my own head, I’m going to do it with all of myself, and not weighed down by borrowed clothes and secondhand memories.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky

“When there is so much broken about the world we currently live in, one cracked person is easy enough to excuse or ignore.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky