saheefa

“It was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“my body
writes into your flesh
the poem
you make of me.

"Recreation”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems