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Akwaeke Emezi
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“maybe coming here was just going to layer more things onto him and make him so heavy that he would fold, crash under new and unexpected skins.”
Akwaeke Emezi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never mind if she sat out on her balcony at home sometimes and fought the urge to find him again, wondered what they could be like if they hadn’t crashed together the way they had, wondered what could have been in another timeline.”
Akwaeke Emezi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There shouldn’t be any monsters left in Lucille. The city used to have them, of course—what city didn’t? They used to be everywhere, thick in the air and offices, in the streets and in people’s own homes. They used to be the police and teachers and judges and even the mayor; yeah, the mayor used to be a monster.”
Akwaeke Emezi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bitter knew her name was heavy, but she hadn’t minded, because it was honest. That was something she’d taught Jam—that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest […] But Jam trusted her mother for those brutal truths, and that’s why home was the first place she brought the books with the angels in them.”
Akwaeke Emezi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source