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"The complexity of it all! And there are moments that happen where I’m reminded they are literal kids.. thrown into this world without any guidance and all the messiness. As always, I’m in awe of Ferrante’s ability to articulate the intricate, complex, hard-to-catch emotions." Nov 29, 2025 02:46PM

 
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Raven Leilani
“Imagine living life so carefully that there are no signs you lived at all.”
Raven Leilani

Akwaeke Emezi
“Hold my life for me.”
Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

Yaa Gyasi
“It took me many years to realize that it’s hard to live in this world. I don’t mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it’s harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more life out of our lives. It’s natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of “what we can handle” changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that’s something of a miracle.”
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

Akwaeke Emezi
“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi
“He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun.”
Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
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