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“Words. They had the strength to shut doors that would never be opened in this lifetime.”

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

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Ayaana would learn that there seemed to be no absolutes in the world, only codes and questions and a guarantee of storms.

“Is it not magical how so full a list becomes so empty in so short a time?”

“Being human is a rare art; it is not given to all equally.”

“Music and painting bandaged soul-holes.”

“Soon we will be gone. To Europe, where the wind’s weight of whispers do not matter; where wind, and all its suggestions have been obliterated.”

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