Minna

“I sat among them, enraptured by their stories, realizing for the first time that every one of us was a link stretching back, mother to daughter to mother, in an unbroken chain from the center of time, connected by milk and blood.”
― Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

“At night I observe Venus, closely following the transitions of this beautiful Damsel. I prefer her as the Evening Star, when she appears as if out of nowhere, as if by magic, and goes down behind the Sun. A spark of eternal light. It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“It dawns on Margot that, old as she is, it’s her mother’s first time on this earth, too.”
― Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

“Billie wanted to ask if motherhood was always that way- waiting for rest to find you, for parts of yourself to come back together.”
― Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat