Quote Quote by Gloria D. Gonsalves

“My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.”

— Tim Butcher

“Before I even had the chance to try, a current of energy washed through me, pulling a gasp from my lips. Strength and familiarity…

— A.K. Morgen

“I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it.…

— Erlend Loe

“The spring breeze With coffee cups, No words said Only eyes catch-up, On green fields With trembling lips, Our hearts collide On the moist…

— Shouvik Bhattacharya

“I taste you in the fleshy fruit of the guayaba that melts as slowly as your kisses in my mouth – your eyes that…

— Bear Step

“My horizon lightened, I see an old woman. Who is she? Where is she from? Bent over, the ends of her boubou tied behind…

— Mariama Bâ

“I went back to the ocean for a wash. The salt stung my face. I didn't know my skin was so raw. I slung…

— Margot Berwin

“My mouth went instantly dry as I looked at him, his eyes unwavering on mine. My heart thudded in my chest and all I…

— Katrina Abbott

“Noah felt strong and warm and muscular and safe and he smelled, oh, God, delicious. I couldn't stop kissing him if my life depend…

— Katie McGarry

“On she prattled, friendly as a parrot. But my loyalties were elsewhere. And the flavour of Pippa's kiss - bittersweet and strange - stayed…

— Donna Tartt

“...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over…

— David Foster Wallace