Anna

“It's not the actual crime that makes me want to leave, it's the possibility that it can happen any time, any second now, even in the next minute. That it might never happen at all, but I think it will happen any second now for the next ten years. Even if it never comes, the point is I'll be waiting for it and the wait is just as bad because you can't do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you. This applies to good stuff too. It never happens. All you have is the waiting for it.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other. Nickel”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“First we root our sensibility in the camp, and with each seed sown a bit of that fear is stripped off.”
― Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People