Peter Lopez Stiedl

“Eventually remembering turned into imagining. How slight the difference was between the two.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“You are crying,” she said. It was only then that Osita noticed the tears slipping into his ears. It was evening and the light was leaving. “It’s raining,” he told her, slurring his words.
She laughed. “It’s not raining.”
“It’s raining inside me,” he said and a wave if darkness took over.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“White folks kill you if you want too much, kill you if you want too little.” Willie Lee shook his head, packing tobacco into his pipe. “You gotta follow they rules but they change ’em when they feel. Devilish, you ask me.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half