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“You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Woman is the mother of life,
For she is the one who carries the womb
of life.
Woman is the carrier of creation. We show
her gratitude always.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

“We read the Bible how we want to read it. It doesn't change, but we do.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom