Stigmata Quotes

“I am aware that the woman sits on the floor with me, and my head is in her lap, but I can’t see her anymore. I only feel her bones beneath my bones, holding me up. I strain to see, even though I feel the sun on my skin, coming through the window.”
― Phyllis Alesia Perry, Stigmata

“I am Ayo. Joy. I choose to remember.”
― Phyllis Alesia Perry, Stigmata

“I come from a long line of forever people. We are forever. Here at the bottom of heaven we live in the circle. We back and gone and back again.”
― Phyllis Alesia Perry, Stigmata

“Sanity," she says to the ground, "is a mutual agreement between folks trying to control their world.”
― Phyllis Alesia Perry, Stigmata