Status Updates From As I Lay Dying

“I can cry quiet now, feeling and hearing my tears.”❤️‍🩹

Randomly picked up this morning for a re-read

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” Some lines are confusing, some lines just hit🫀

“It’s a hard life on women, for a fact. Some women. I mind my mammy lived to be seventy and more. Worked every day, rain or shine; never a sick day since her last chap was born until one day she kind of looked around her and then she went and taken that night gown she had had forty-five years and never wore out of the chest and put it on and laid down on the bed and pulled the covers up and shut her eyes.”