This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

by Kennedy Ryan

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.” —Emily Dickinson, personal correspondence

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” —bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. I know what he meant. When we have hard times, huge changes that seem to be the end of the world as we know it, it’s actually an incubator for metamorphosis. For a new beginning. To me he misses the point, as men so often do. When you hurt the way we women sometimes have to, when you lose so much, when the world ends over and over and over again, we are no longer butterflies. Those wings are much too fragile to carry us on and through. I’m a hornet. I can love. And I can sting.

“I fall in love with myself and I want someone to share it with me.” —Eartha Kitt, iconic actress