Aubrey Reece

“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to The Defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was make me realize that there wasn’t so big a difference between the man who’d brutalized Denise and half the men I passed every day on the street.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“I’m a drag queen. I’m a celebrity trapped in a normal person’s body.”
― Josh Kilmer-Purcell, I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir

“paradise is a world where everything is sanctuary & nothing is a gun.”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems