Frida

“Grave is home, grave is lineage. Grave is to know where your people is, even if you can't see them anymore.”
― Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

“He’s hard not to like. He’s a mess, but you get to be as old as me and you realize damn near everyone goes through a time when they’re a mess. Problem is that most people who haven’t had it happen to them yet think it’s virtue and clean living keeping them out of the gutter.”
― Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

“Yejide don't have the heart to tell him that is not only headstones that make a place a burial ground. Under the Green, under fancy restaurants that used to be plantation houses, under the government buildlings, under the housing complexes, under the shopping malls, is layers and layers of dead — unknown, unnamed, unclaimed. It don't have a single place on this whole island that don't house the dead.”
― Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

“Only two things in the world people count by months. How old a baby is, and how long since something awful happened.”
― Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky