Butterfly 5

by Ashley Antoinette

Fight the demons and get your shit in order for your family. Family is all there is. It can be gone in the fucking blink of an eye. You hear me?”

Don’t let another man love your daughter first. The shit will never go away. It’ll always fuck with you.”

One thing I ain’t never doing is proving shit to a nigga that ain’t never proven himself to me.”

inconsistent love was worse than no love at all.

You can’t come back and claim to love me but keep bird feeding me breadcrumbs of truth. I’m not with that. You digging the knife in slow instead of just getting it over with.”

Loving a man was a dangerous game because you gave away your power. They had the influence to make you feel like you’re invaluable when they got it right, but in a case like this, they also had the power to make you feel worthless.

dick ain’t never stopped nobody from telling shit when they get hemmed up. It’s a whole lotta street niggas away for life from thinking the dick was good enough to make a bitch sacrifice herself. Newsflash, your dick ain’t that good.”

“And leveraging your presence without an explanation of why you were leaving was emotional abuse,

“Before any of us can point fingers at how someone else mishandled a situation, we have to see how we contributed to things,”

“Loving someone means being honest with them,

“Do your best to love yourself,” Morgan said. “Until you meet somebody you can trust yourself with.”

“What’s ahead of you could be more valuable than what’s behind you. You’ll never get there if you don’t trust the process of loss.

I don’t think with my dick. I’m never jeopardizing my wife. That ain’t never something you got to worry about.”