Carla (There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast)

“She didn't understand the horror of watching your body star in something your mind didn't agree to.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Making the nation safe for white people could be more easily accomplished with the help of a whitewashed tale of its origins.”
― Jabari Asim, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

“What if everything hadn’t happened to me but had happened for me? What I learned is that how we hold our experiences is everything.”
― Demi Moore, Inside Out

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa