Nay Denise

“What does nostalgia mean to a child? An abstraction. A standing stone waiting for them in the mist. Walk a path across some decades, any path you like, and the word will gather weight. It will come to you trailing maybes and might-have-beens. Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Against young skin it carries a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts - and that it's a blade that we cannot keep from applying to our own flesh.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“Sometimes a black woman’s beautiful hair is determined to throw up its hands and praise Jesus. Nothing will stand in its way,” Grammy used to say,”
― C.C. Warrens, Dragonfly Ashes

“People don’t want truth. They say that they do but what they mean is that they want the truth to agree with them.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“an ocean of knowledge is apt to drown you long before it educates you. The art of learning was in selection,”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn