This book touched my spirit in ways I can’t even describe. I have never left a book with this feeling. bell hooks amazes me in the way she writes. Everything she wrote made me reanalyze and rethink how I envisioned love. I truly believe I’m stepping away from this book a better person which is insane but still awe inspiring. One of my many favorite quotes of this book is, “The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born—waiting to see the light.” Rest in peace bell hooks and I know from this book that you truly lived a life full of love and a life where you weren’t fearful of death but instead accepted it as just a part of life that we can’t change.