“The other man would go away one day. The day is coming, and he is almost gone.”
Source: Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
“Look to the mycelial networks beneath the forest floor, the fungal threads that connect plants into a communicating, nourishing community. They are Earth’s ultimate re-memberers. They do not ask the baobab to be strong alone; they weave its roots into the strength of the whole system. Our re-membering must be like this: an underground network of love that defies the solitary struggle the imperial gaze demands.”
“It's unfair."
As a rule, life is unfair," I said.
Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things."
To Dick?"
Yeah."
I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“With so much success coming so quickly, envy wasn’t far behind. Whispers began to circulate—ugly, baseless rumors that she must have used her beauty to secure big projects. Some claimed she must have done something immoral to catch the attention of Mumbai’s top agencies. What stung most was hearing such things from her own studio colleagues—people who once admired her, who had said they wanted to be like her. So, first thing first, she threw out those people from our circle, from her studio. Nia never let the words take root. They reached her ears, but never her mind. She stayed focused, worked harder, and kept her name clean. Soon, she was counted among a good circle of respected, talented choreographers who valued her dedication, work and decency.”
Source: Violets: Where Love Blooms Quietly
“Every child deserves a hero and should never have to be their own.”
Source: Embracing Taylor
“Mon corps ne trichait pas.”
Source: L'explorateur intérieur
“The gardener who grew ghosts learned that grief is not a problem to solve. It is soil to tend.”
Source: In the Ghost Garden: You are not what was done to You, You are what You do with it
“Everything in this family circled back to honey and tea, tea and honey. Jack told me once that healing started with a simmering pot and a spoonful of gold. In this house, tea was a love language all its own, and it spoke when words and other medicines failed.”
Source: Honey in Her Veins
“There was a side of him I believed only I knew, but then we are often blinded by what we want to see. Torn in half, I held onto hope, struggling not to plummet into the chasm of my own irreconcilability.”
Source: Running Backward
“Movement is how the body remembers itself. It is how
survival shifts into recovery. It is how safety is relearned,
one step, one stretch, one breath at a time.”
Source: When the Body Whispers: Reclaiming Energy, Balance, and Wellbeing