Shrutel

“Forgiveness, they shouted, all the while committing their wrongs.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“No therapist or clergy can substitute for the confidence of a whore, because whores have no voice in the world, no avenue to daylight, and that makes us the most reliable custodians of secrets and truth.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“I think he just means that we should fortify ourselves with love when we approach them. It’s more about our own state of grace, of protecting our spirits from their denigration of us; about knowing that our struggle is rooted in morality, and that the struggle itself is not against them as a people, but against what infects them—the idea that they are a better form of human, that God prefers them, that they are inherently a superior race, and we are disposable.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“It contains, instead, a yawning stretch of something unnamed, without present, future, or past, which I fill with imagined or remembered life.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World