Kisani

“At a brown door at the end of the basement corridor she knocked to the beat of an Umar Dimayev song.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you,
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep. —RUMI”
― Ann Dowsett Johnston, Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

“As, everyone knows, water hates poor people. Given the opportunity, water will always find a way to make poor people miserable, typically at the worst time possible.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“my father often stopped to breathe in, for he had told me time and time again that trouble will not stop in a man whose lungs are filled with fresh air.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley