When you break something, you must study the pattern of the shattering before you can piece it back together.
Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

I loved them immediately when I saw them. Like, deeply. Electric. Can’t explain it.

“Oh, body, be held now by whom you love.
Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars,
when dirt’s the only animal who will sleep with you
& touch you with
its mouth.”

— Aracelis Girmay, from Kingdom Animalia