Terri Adele

“She wouldn’t forget that somewhere, beneath the duties and the obligations, she still deserved joy.”
― Courtney Milan, Once Upon a Marquess

“Criminality, once it touched black life, was a stain hard to remove.”
― Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird

“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air