They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
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La libertad qué bien te sabe.
Camila Cabello & Daddy Yankee
Havana
Freedom, how good it tastes to you.
As the scenes came back one by one, the
same sensation of dreamy unnatural oppression came over me so strongly
that I stopped writing and said to Miss Lamont, “Do you think that the
Petit Trianon is haunted?”Her answer was prompt, “Yes, I do.”
–Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, An Adventure, 1913.
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That’s living.
Zora Neale Hurston
There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We’d be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think ‘it will be okay if it can just be like this forever’ but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
Lucifer may be strong, but I’m petty.
Zachariah, Supernatural S5E16
secretive dreams 