Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
“Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit.”
“The world in my head has been far more real than the one outside—maybe that’s the exact definition of madness, come to think of it.”
“The first madness was that we were born, that they stuffed a god into a bag of skin.”
“It was interesting for us to watch, how he didn’t even have to go anywhere in order to leave her.”
“But I've learned that you can't force forever on the wrong people. They belong exactly where they are, giving exactly what they want to. I don't ask for anything more. I figure I shouldn't have to.”
“We understood what was necessary -humans often fail at listening, as if their stubbornness will convince the truth to change, as if they have that kind of power. They do, however, understand forceful things, cruelties--they obey those.”
“And while he loves humans (he was born of one, lived and died as one), what they forget is that he loves them as a god does, which is to say, with a taste for suffering.”
“I have lived many lives inside this body. I lived many lives before they put me in this body. I will live many lives when they take me out of it.”
“Think of brief insanities that are in you, not just the ones that blossomed as you grew into taller, more sinful versions of yourself, but the ones were born with, tucked behind your liver.”
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