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“They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away?”
― Krik? Krak!
― Krik? Krak!
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”
― Krik? Krak!
― Krik? Krak!
“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“On that day so long ago, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the Massacre River, my mother did fly. Weighted down by my body inside hers, she leaped from Dominican soil into the water, and out again on the Haitian side of the river. She glowed red when she came out, blood clinging to her skin, which at that moment looked as though it were in flames.”
― Krik? Krak!
― Krik? Krak!
jade’s 2025 Year in Books
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