“And he should chastise the girl, he knows that, but she is his brightest ember and he would not have her dimmed.” — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share Image
“And he should chastise the girl, he knows that, but she is his brightest ember and he would not have her dimmed.” — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share Image
“She sounded just like my mother, and I knew that if I didn’t interrupt, the lecture would escalate until I wanted to slit my… — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share Image
“What would happen if you couldn’t forget, if every emotion from every person whose grief you’d eaten came back up? It could happen if… — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share Image
“There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warm and context and history and each finds that they are arguing with a… — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share Image
“You shouldn’t be stopping a person from feeling natural hardships. That’s what it means to be human.” — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share Image
