Erin Sullivan

“I wrote from real life, and when Northerners advised me it was fiction, I conceded 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

“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

“... 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

“He wanted to exude authority and power, but these were qualities he did not have. They were, as it happened, the very air that Mami breathed.”
― Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds