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Quotes from You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty — Akwaeke Emezi

born 1987 Nigeria

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“I think we’re just figuring out how to survive a world on fire…that it’s okay to be alive.”

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022)

Feyi felt like a monster and a traitor, but it was fine, it had to happen.”

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022)

Feyi had already decided who she wanted to be that night, so she stared right back at him, unabashed, drinking in his terra-cotta skin and dark copper beard.”

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Akwaeke Emezi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.