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“Now, hearing Tansi speak, Afua resumed her crying, but it was as though no one heard. These tears were a matter of routine. They came for all of the women. They dropped until the clay below them turned to mud. At night, Esi dreamed that if they all cried in unison, the mud would turn to river and they could be washed away into the Atlantic.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
― The Queen of the Tearling
― The Queen of the Tearling
“Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating, your conception of reality.”
― Intimations
― Intimations
“War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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