Amelia

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn't even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn't talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
― Yiwei Chai

“Lord, what is it we people do in this world that we have to suffer so? What it is we want that the white people and them find it so hard to give? A little work, a little food, a little place to sleep. We not asking for the sun, or the moon. We only want to get by, we don't even want to get on.”
― Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

“For as I am, I live upon the rack.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“And carnival or no carnival, Denver preferred the venomous baby to him any day.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved