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Toni Morrison
“I sure did live in this world.'
'Really? What have you got to show for it?'
'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.'
'Lonely, ain't it?'
'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you.”
Toni Morrison, Sula

Safia Elhillo
“my loneliness grows teeth i feel them chewing my stomach”
Safia Elhillo, Home Is Not a Country

Heather Fawcett
“I may be of use to you yet, my dear dragon.”
Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Safia Elhillo
“I want him to know I am not lonely, I have ghosts, I have my illnesses, I have a mouthful of half-languages, & blood thick with medications, doctors line up to hear my crooked heart”
Safia Elhillo, The January Children
tags: poetry

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“There was nothing she had in common with her grandfather: it was Martín who inherited all his virtues and his vices. Casiopea liked to believe herself a copy of her father or closer to her mother, even though she did not feel she possessed the woman’s kindness. Like many young people, ultimately she saw herself as a completely new creature, a creation that had sprung from no ancient soils.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

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