Bree Chantell

“But even more important was the idea that, at any moment, we all had the awesome and underutilized power to simply let go of our past and step beyond it.”
― Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones

“It was in my mind that I believed the thing had happened, and it was in my mind that I now fused together abuse and attraction.”
― Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones

“Aunty Ifeoma was silent as she ladled the thick cocoyam paste into the soup pot; then she looked up and said Papa-Nnukwu was not a heathen but a traditionalist, that sometimes what was different was just as good as what was familiar, that when Papa-Nnukwu did his itu-nzu, his declaration of innocence, in the morning, it was the same as our saying the rosary.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“For a moment, I was free again. And that was the thing. I felt free only when I could separate myself from myself, when I could imagine that I was distinct from my body and life. There in the ethereal nothingness, in the quiet space of my mind, I found peace.”
― Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones