Alexandra

“They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“B'gwus is famous because of his wide range of homes. In some places, he's called Bigfoot. In other places, he's Yeti, or the Abominable Snowman, or Sasquatch. To most people, he is the equivalent of the Loch Ness monster, something silly to bring the tourist in. His image is even used to sell beer, and he is portrayed as a laid-back kind of guy, lounging on mountaintops in patio chairs, cracking open a frosty one.”
― Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

“We all are born with burdens. Some of us more than others.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

“he didn’t want to grow up. Adulthood had no benefits that he could see and he was loath to join that cruel population.”
― Patrick deWitt, French Exit