Katherine Kling

“Poor Blacks in metropolitan Chicago are ten times more likely than poor Whites to live in high-poverty areas. With Black poverty dense and White poverty scattered, Black poverty is visible and surrounds its victims; White poverty blends in.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Every experience that reaffirmed I had known happiness, and had been capable of love, was wroth grasping for.”
― Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

“Sometimes in their pain, people believe that the agony will last forever. But feelings are actually more like weather systems—they blow in and they blow out. Just because you feel sad this minute or this hour or this day doesn’t mean you’ll feel that way in ten minutes or this afternoon or next week. Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“In the center of the road, I saw a heavy black sewing machine on its side, as if it had crawled out onto the street to die.”
― Paula McLain, Love and Ruin