Maria Ejike

“I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“When I think of death
it is a bright enough city,”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird

“This is a love story to its blade-dented bone.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking.”
― Mary Oliver, Red Bird