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“I learned from him that sadness is the hardest thing to breed out of a bloodline.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“Did you ever read about bubonic plague in medieval Europe?” I asked. She nodded. She reads a lot the way I do, reads all kinds of things. “A lot of the continent was depopulated,” she said. “Some survivors thought the world was coming to an end.” “Yes, but once they realized it wasn’t, they also realized there was a lot of vacant land available for the taking, and if they had a trade, they realized they could demand better pay for their work. A lot of things changed for the survivors.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“I prefer winkte, but when I’m talking to non-Natives, yeah, I’m a gay girl.” “Winkte?” “It’s a Lakota thing,” said Gogo. “Lakota for gay?”
― Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

“TV spun a web of dreams. Vern was happy to be caught in it. She could get drunk on this place where police were good, always solving crimes and caring about folks, and everyone was so shiny and pretty.”
― Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland