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“Despite all the pain he caused, I didn't know how to breathe without my brother in this world.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

“It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go. Ours is an amazing, a spectacular, journey in the Americas. It is so remarkable one can only be thankful for it, bizarre as that may sound. Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say Yes, if through the thickest of tears.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“You carry all of us in your heart. We shall live in every breath you take. Every incantation you speak.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance