Maurice Cobb

“We are born and grow through childhood in spring. We live those glorious, lively, interesting years of our twenties, thirties, forties in summer. We settle into ourselves in autumn, that cool but not yet cold time, rich and aromatic. And in winter we age (brutally) and die.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

“It was hard to forget the things that hurt you. You didn’t often forget the shape of your cage.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“They did everything they could to stop our sun from shining. But I’m still here. A sun that just kept on rising.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“But I think of life rather like a long road we walk in one direction. By and large a lonesome walk out in the wildness of hills and wind. Mountains. Snow. And sometimes there is someone to come along and walk with you for a stretch, and sometimes (this is what I’m getting to) sometimes you see in the distance some lights and it heartens you, the lone house or maybe a village and you come into the warmth of that stopover and go inside.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent