Liz

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind into language that can be absorbed and assimilated into the consciousness of a broader audience.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“I like to think I know what death is.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“... Saeed's father wept only when he was alone in his room, silently, without tears, his body seized as though by a stutter, or a shiver, that would not let go, for his sense of loss was boundless, and his sense of the benevolence of the universe was shaken, and his wife had been his best friend.”
― Mohsin Hamid