Great Black Hope Quotes

“If you paused at the corner by the park and closed your eyes, you could listen as the honking traffic and heaving bodies swished and spun with laundromat rhythms and imagine that, when summer ended, all of this would again make sense—how you lived here, indeed, and why.”
― Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope

“And because it was funny, Smith laughed as well. A gut-clench, sight-blur of laughter, full as a palm's clutch of fireflies. They swam out to the night. Into the warmth they knew was a gift that would someday eclipse them.”
― Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope

“And if nothing lasts forever, why should intimacy shared for the duration of a pop song’s chorus be any less extraordinary?”
― Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope