Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater

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  • Noemi Serraldehas quoted2 years ago
    It was interesting for us to watch, how he didn’t even have to go anywhere in order to leave her.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    Ewan kept thrusting, pounding in the dark, and when he spoke, his voice was a stranger’s, slurred and hard.

    “Shut the fuck up,” he said.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    “I fucking love you,” I said.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    Here is the empty that follows it all.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    Very well, we will do you this one thing, because it was always you and us together, and you named us the shadow that eats things and the smoke that hides the mother color from our teeth, and you have granted us dominion over this marble room that you call your mind, so here is the place where you miss that man and the girls and the road you used to run down, it is soft and fleshy, a bulb of feeling, and here we are like a useful edge and here is the cut, here is the fall, here is the empty that follows it all.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    And so we were strengthened, because belief, for beings like us, is the colostrum of existence.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    At twenty, when she was in veterinary school, after spending long hours separating skin from cadaver muscle and lifting delicate sheets of fascia, she would return to her room and use a fresh scalpel on her scarred left arm.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    Since the corrupters broke her shrines and converted her children, how many of them were calling her name anymore?
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    They meant to punish her: they took her children, they filled her mouth with sand.
  • Meagan Robertshas quotedlast year
    The first madness was that we were born, that they stuffed a god into a bag of skin.
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