“Don't make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
―
Tracy Deonn,
Legendborn
“The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can't do anything for anyone else if you don't take care of yourself first.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Love is a powerful thing, more powerful than blood, although both run through us like a river.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain to acknowledge them back. They need to witness it in real time, or else you're not doing your part.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Who's the literary nerd? The quoter or the one who recognizes the quote?” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Two faults. My race and my gender. But they are not faults. They are strength. And I am more than this man can comprehend.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“And then I unwind her.One strand for my mother.One for my father.One for me.I unravel the rage until it courses through my veins like fuel in an engine. I let it become a part of me, but not all of me. Hot, scorching pain under my skin, under my tongue, under my nails. I let it spread through me—until there is no more “Before” and no more “After.”I am her and she is me.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“But grief isn’t a competition. It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.” ― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked
“Why someone dies is not the same question as why they are gone.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“How does this boy navigate my emotions like a seasonal sailor, finding the clear skies and bringing them closer, when all I seem able to do is hold fast to the storms?” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Because death breaks out connection... death is not a thread. it is the sharp cut that severs us. Death separates us from one another, and yet holds us close. As deeply as we hate it, it love us more.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“They that would be a leader, let them be a bridge.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Everything has two histories. Especially in the South.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Piggyback.” “Excuse me?” “You heard me.” “Like that movie—” “Shut up.” “Churlish.” “Arrogant.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Some truths only tragedy can teach.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“I recognize that sound. It's the sound of holding on to a cliff by the edge of your nails. The sound of barely containing a pain so immense that to look at it, to raise your own flesh and examine what's beneath, is to risk falling into a darkness you know you'll never escape.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Growing up Black in the South, it’s pretty common to find yourself in old places that just… weren’t made for you. Maybe it’s a building, a historic district, or a street. Some space that was originally built for white people and white people only, and you just have to hold that knowledge while going about your business.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“What truly ties us together is not blood but pain. When we love someone and lose them, that loss imprints itself on everyone else we love too.” ― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked
“From buried lives to beaten ones. From blood stolen to blood hidden. I map this terrain's sins, the invisible, and the many, and hold them close. Because even if the pain of those sins takes my breath away, the pain feels like belonging. And ignoring it, after all I've just witnessed, would be loss.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“The most important thing you can do in this world, the most necessary thing, is to survive it. You can't do anything for anyone else if you don't take care of yourself first.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Love is a powerful thing, more powerful than blood, although both run through us like a river.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain to acknowledge them back. They need to witness it in real time, or else you're not doing your part.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Who's the literary nerd? The quoter or the one who recognizes the quote?” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Two faults. My race and my gender. But they are not faults. They are strength. And I am more than this man can comprehend.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“And then I unwind her.One strand for my mother.One for my father.One for me.I unravel the rage until it courses through my veins like fuel in an engine. I let it become a part of me, but not all of me. Hot, scorching pain under my skin, under my tongue, under my nails. I let it spread through me—until there is no more “Before” and no more “After.”I am her and she is me.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“But grief isn’t a competition. It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.” ― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked
“Why someone dies is not the same question as why they are gone.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“How does this boy navigate my emotions like a seasonal sailor, finding the clear skies and bringing them closer, when all I seem able to do is hold fast to the storms?” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Because death breaks out connection... death is not a thread. it is the sharp cut that severs us. Death separates us from one another, and yet holds us close. As deeply as we hate it, it love us more.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“They that would be a leader, let them be a bridge.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Everything has two histories. Especially in the South.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Piggyback.” “Excuse me?” “You heard me.” “Like that movie—” “Shut up.” “Churlish.” “Arrogant.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Some truths only tragedy can teach.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“I recognize that sound. It's the sound of holding on to a cliff by the edge of your nails. The sound of barely containing a pain so immense that to look at it, to raise your own flesh and examine what's beneath, is to risk falling into a darkness you know you'll never escape.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“Growing up Black in the South, it’s pretty common to find yourself in old places that just… weren’t made for you. Maybe it’s a building, a historic district, or a street. Some space that was originally built for white people and white people only, and you just have to hold that knowledge while going about your business.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
“What truly ties us together is not blood but pain. When we love someone and lose them, that loss imprints itself on everyone else we love too.” ― Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked
“From buried lives to beaten ones. From blood stolen to blood hidden. I map this terrain's sins, the invisible, and the many, and hold them close. Because even if the pain of those sins takes my breath away, the pain feels like belonging. And ignoring it, after all I've just witnessed, would be loss.” ― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn
