“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
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“I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.”
― The Golem
― The Golem
“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.”
― The Hearing Trumpet
― The Hearing Trumpet
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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