Rena

“longing to trust someone; I was making life a fiction, or writing”
― Hilton Als, White Girls

“To them he is their sunshine, with me, well; he just leaves me an awkward shade of blue. They”
― Alexandra Elle Smith, Words from a Wanderer

“Once upon a time, a woman told this to her daughter: Save yourself. The girl didn’t think to ask for what? She looked into her mother’s face and answered Yes. Years later, alone in the room where she lives The daughter listens to the life she’s been saved from: Evening patter. Summer laughter. Young bodies Racing into the unmitigated happiness of danger.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars: Poems

“What the heart desires is medicine to itself.”
― Rebecca Walker, Ade: A Love Story