Imani

“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 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

“Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?”
― Catherine Lacey, Pew

“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