Anika Ferguson

“I never knew my mother. She died the night that I was born, and so we passed each other in the dark…”
― Allegra Goodman, Isola

“What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before?
-Jacky Faber”
― L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack

“To love and be loved was more than could ever be expected, more than enough for a thousand ordinary lifetimes.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God’s flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss and said, Man. Where you been.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead