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“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“Your grandma used to always tell me that just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't successful. All things end at some point.”
― Justina Ireland, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

“They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.”
― Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities

“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus�� that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous