Barbara Murunga

“The destination always kills the journey and if we reduce life to a story, it can only be a bad one”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder

“Sometimes, when it had been a hard day at school and the future looked unusually dark, Miss Matt would permit herself to cry luxuriously for half an hour; afterward she would wash her face, and dress and go out to some nice restaurant for dinner.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“Generations of sacrifice; hard work and harder living. So much suffered, so much forfeited, so much -- for this opportunity. For my life. And I've tried, tried living up to it. But after years of struggling, fighting against the current, I'm ready to slow my arms. Stop kicking. Breathe the water in. I'm exhausted. Perhaps it’s time to end this story. Ah - here’s Lou.”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly

“Romance sweetens the casual bitterness we can encounter; it heightens the mundane and makes the terrestrial supernatural.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold