Sel

“It’s not that I want exactly this, to have a husband or home security system that, for the length of our marriage, never goes off. It’s that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“You’re going nowhere, my little Persephone. I didn’t bring you back to my island just so you could leave, and I’m certainly not relieving you of your sentence. You’ll serve it at my goddamn side as the queen of my little underworld, and all your family will ever be able to do is watch.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates