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Quotes by Akwaeke Emezi

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Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know
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It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best.
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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.
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The worst part of embodiment is being unseen.
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Remembering is the death of mercy.
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It wasn’t me,” I said. “I don’t know what happened.” If you don’t know what happened, how do you know it wasn’t you?
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I often wonder if I died in the best possible way - in the arms of the one who loved me the most, wearing a skin that was true.
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I would say it was too late, but time has stopped meaning what it used to. I don't mind anymore. I see how things work now, from this side. I was born and I died. I will come back. Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive.
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I know many people survive, but I also think people glorify resilience a little too much, forgetting that the fragile ones simply die as the world walks on over their bones.
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...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?
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