Alia

“We have a saying back home: Ịchụrụ chi ya aka mgba. One does not challenge their chi to a wrestling match. It feels as if that’s what I’ve been doing for years now, wrestling as if it could end in anything other than my loss. But it’s a relief to finally be thrown, to lie with my back on the sand, alive and out of breath. You can see the sky properly this way.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“I don’t see how nightmares is your reward for something good. Where is your mercy? Where is your sense of doing what’s right—what one human would do? I am not human, and even I know.”
― Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

“Why should it matter so little, what I want, what I'd fight the universe for?”
― Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. —Zora Neale Hurston”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House