Maya

“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Lightness, like anything inherited at great cost, was a lonely gift.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Despite knowing for a fact that this pain and these illnesses are not my fault, that’s hard to remember on the bad days. I begin to blame myself and then feel ashamed that I caused someone else to pause their life to help me through something that my brain is telling me I caused.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

“Being mad at my own body for something it has no control over only succeeded in making everything hurt even more.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics