Vanessa

“And I understood finally that a nation is a house with no windows or doors at all. That no matter what I did-no matter how much blood I spilled in its defense or ink I spent in its praise-it would never, ever be my home.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“How sweet it was to die, knowing someone wanted you to live.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“this is the land striving to give you
a sovereign ground within your body.”
― Jess Housty, Crushed Wild Mint