Toryn Jo

“There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“and here you are living
despite it all”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Dally didn't die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. Just like Tim Shepard and Curly Shepard and the Brumly boys and the other guys we knew would die someday. But Johnny was right. He died gallant.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“it isn't what we left behind
that breaks me
it's whatever we could've built
had we stayed”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers