Big Red

“It’s a beautiful country, she’s been told, depending on who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Soon the smoke will drift over the river, and with it, the shepherds' first exposure to that smell: a smell like sick pork cooked slow, a smell that some would describe as having a taste, too, one that lingered in the back of the nose, at the base of the tongue, a taste not unlike licking a very old library book.”
― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers

“Cleopatra saw the same sunset. Ain't that crazy? Like everybody who was ever alive only seen one sun.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“My grandpappy say when we die, we get our wings back, the ones white folk cut off when we come here. Maybe I’ll fly and meet my mama. Or all the way back to Africy.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout