Quaterria Brown

“But first, I drag him into the rain because we can't waste a chance to dance in it.”
― Riss M. Neilson, A Love Like the Sun

“I'll take you to appointments, hold your hand when it hurts.' Tears slip from his eyes, and I start to cry remembering the ultrasound. 'I'll give you pieces of me if I'm a match, Laniah, because I know they'll be home inside of you. I don't care if you meet someone else and fall in love, it will be me here, regardless.”
― Riss M. Neilson, A Love Like the Sun

“The best thing about being at an HBCU is that you don't really have to find your community. 'Cause it's all of us. You just have to find your tribe. It's like we're all cookies, but what kind of cookie are you?”
― Ebony LaDelle, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“... and I was still beside him, wishing and praying and hoping that the magic I had always seen in his eyes could pour out of him, touch the earth and give him everything he ever wanted and never stopped believing he could have. Until dreaming things for him made me start dreaming for myself again.”
― Riss M. Neilson, A Love Like the Sun