Raya Fagg

“What, you finally ask yourself, do I do now? Your entire recovery—all that passes for drug treatment in this country—has been about defining what you don’t want to be, what you fear and dread and need to avoid.”
― David Simon, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

“For, you see, he had found his center, his own center, inside him: and it showed. He wasn’t anybody’s nigger. And that’s a crime, in this fucking free country. You’re suppose to be somebody’s nigger. And if you’re nobody’s nigger, you’re a bad nigger: and that’s what the cops decided when Fonny moved downtown.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“would both cry about it, tears that felt happy but tasted sad, just not here, not now.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“I shrugged. ‘My life is unremarkable.’ She smiled. ‘No life is unremarkable.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home