“Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“There are no lines. For everything is a circle, turning back on itself endlessly. This is not to make you dizzy, but to give you the chance to get it right the next time.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“She could unhook herself from the need to believe beauty might have a place that wasn't subject to anyone's unwanted hands and sour breath. Wasn't no way this place was going to keep thinking she was its prime fool. Not at all. Not as long as she had fists. And even if they took those, the stubs.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“Knowledge was a strength even when it hurt.”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
“So Ruth cried and Maggie learned right then and there that a toubab woman's tears were the most potent of potions; they could wear down stone and make people of all colors clumsy, giddy, senseless, soft. What, then, was the point of asking, "So why didn't you tell the truth?”
― The Prophets
― The Prophets
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