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“They didn’t remember in pictures, nor did they recall exact events, but they knew in their bodies. Bits of the past absorbed into them and transformed into instinct.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep

“His mouth opened, he cried out, and it was not for holiness but for her, all for her.”
― Nghi Vo, The City in Glass

“The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it. Well, not until it kills you anyway.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“But Yetu wanted people to remember how she remembered: with screams. She had no wish to transform trauma to performance, to parade what she’d come to think of as her own tragedies for entertainment.”
― Rivers Solomon, The Deep