The January Children Quotes

“verily everything that is lost will be given a name & will not come back but will live forever”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children

“I want him to know I am not lonely, I have ghosts, I have my illnesses, I have a mouthful of half-languages, & blood thick with medications, doctors line up to hear my crooked heart”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children

“it was easier to just be something else”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children

“for every
country i lose i make another & i make another”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children

“i have all my buried dead they root me
& all my missing dead displace me here i am
stain of emptied bloodlines of women dressed in black”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children

“our mouths open & a song falls out thick
with a saxophone’s syrup & all our dead
in the ground make the land ours & all
our missing fathers make us everything’s child”
― Safia Elhillo, The January Children