A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. - Jeph Jacques
That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. - Toni Morrison