Imani

“Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exists in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal – or can be.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

“I told her she would always be able to find a white man to be obliterated by, if that was what she decided she wanted.”
― Rachel Cusk, Second Place

“Sometimes I think I might be writing a letter to sleep, that I might be asking him if he remembers me, if he ever plans on coming back. I’ve received no word from death’s brother.”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men