Debbie M

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“So she sang back silently to them, as a comfort, there in the cell, and when the moonlight lay thick and bright against the gritty cheek of the sand dune, the foxes would gambol and prance for the sheer delight of it and beckon her to join them, would let her into their minds that she might know what it was to gambol and to prance on those four legs, then these four legs, to see the world from a fox’s level. It was almost like flying. Almost.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“I will dance to the music of words, for one more time.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

“I realize that there are fragments of my life that I do not want to lose, if only because I still have not found the knot to tie them up with.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists