“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
“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 something went wrong with the formula millions and millions of permutations down the line. A thousand falling men landing on you. Nneoma tried to retreat, to close her eyes and unsee, but she couldn’t. Instinct took… — Lesley Nneka Arimah Copy Share
“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
