Erin Sullivan

“... it's a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Looking at Woja Beki’s face, I wonder why he was ever born, considering there’s an infinite host of unborn begging to be born, considering most of the unborn would be decent people if given a chance at life. Why does the Spirit keep on cursing the world with the existence of the likes of Woja Beki?”
― Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were

“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceited that maybe it was. What did I know—an immigrant, writing in her second tongue? Maybe my life was a fiction.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds

“There are moments like this, and here was not the first, when I understood why they wear on us so, why they chain us, beat us, rape us, hate us, and what I understood was that they would never have this, for all their power, their guns, their gold, they could never get to this feeling”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer