Jamie Benner

“I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain.”
― Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

“The only thing I wanted was a life that God did not intend for me to have. I suffered the loss of things that were never mine.”
― Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars

“We have no prisons, after all." I thought about that, and found that I knew what prisons were. Humans often locked up their lawbreakers in cages. Prisons. "No Ina prisons? Why?" "None of us are willing to spend our lives in prison with the lawbreakers. Maintaining a prison isn't quite as unpleasant as being a prisoner in one, but it's bad enough. And levying fines would be meaningless. It's too easy for us to get money form the human population. For lesser crimes, most likely we amputate something.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing