Tara

“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

“She says she is aware of the irony of being a medical examiner who smokes, but that for all the blackened lungs she's seen, it is more disturbing to open the chest cavity of a veteran and find it is pristine.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“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

“her eyes devoured the following words”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion