Claudia

“It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the same places.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“It is impossible to believe that any of us ever looked like children. I understand, of course, that we were once children. The cloak of time has yet to grow so long that I have surrendered my childhood.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Yes, Lord, I am thankful today again for every reminder of how I have outlived my worst imagination. I will walk slowly through the garden of all that could have killed me but didn’t.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“The crimes of the Nazis against the Jews would cease to exist, because the Soviet Union decided there were no Jews. There never had been. The Jews had become "Soviet Citizens," undifferentiated from the mass of the rest. Crimes that were unspeakable because of their horror become crimes that could not be spoken because the language in which to enunciate them had been destroyed.”
― Ray Nayler, Palaces of the Crow