The End of the Alphabet Quotes

“There is/no reasoning with need.”
― Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems

“-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.”
― Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems

“If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this?/
Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.”
― Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems

“What we live
before the light is turned off
is what prevents the light from being turned off.

‘The quotidian”
― Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems