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Marlene NourbeSe Philip
“they ask for water we give them sea
they ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea”
M. Nourbese Philip, Zong!

Toni Morrison
“More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?”
Toni Morrison, A Mercy

J.M. Coetzee
“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

Hilary Mantel
“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious act and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

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