Emily Scott

“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

“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

“and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“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