Tara

“There were flowers everywhere—winter flowers: bunches of decorative cabbages and white-budded dogwood branches and paperwhite bulbs, with their sweet, faintly fecal fragrance—”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be born just to die.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“This is my home, Akila says, and I know that the moment between when a black boy is upright and capable of speech and when he is prostrate in his own blood is almost imperceptible,”
― Raven Leilani, Luster