jade

“They say behind mountains are more mountains.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

“They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away?”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

“On that day so long ago, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, in the Massacre River, my mother did fly. Weighted down by my body inside hers, she leaped from Dominican soil into the water, and out again on the Haitian side of the river. She glowed red when she came out, blood clinging to her skin, which at that moment looked as though it were in flames.”
― Edwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak!

“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed