Emily Scott

“At any time I felt I could do or say anything at all, and only afterward think: oh, so that’s the kind of person I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“This big ol’ world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
― Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

“White folks kill you if you want too much, kill you if you want too little.” Willie Lee shook his head, packing tobacco into his pipe. “You gotta follow they rules but they change ’em when they feel.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half