Helen B

“The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to have to defend ourselves against you?”
― James Baldwin, One Day When I Was Lost

“My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Stars. Or rather, the drains of heaven – waiting. Little holes. Little centuries opening just enough for us to slip through.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds