Content Warning Quotes

“SANCTUARY

the safest place in the world is a book
is a shifting land on top of a tree
so high up that a belt can't reach
is a closet opening into snow with
a tropical child tumbling through
is a river, a mermaid, a spaceship
a girl with living tentacles for hair
is a red-horned, gold-feathered angel
a dusty crocodile on a second star
is a fractional platform, another family
one with only soft mothers and aunts
is a meadow, is a menu of words
an oxygen mask, chest compressions
is a map for someone who has died
many times, and wants to come back.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Content Warning: Everything

“i will most certainly have wings of roaring flame
eleven of them, seven unstable faces, your worst
shame as my eyes, your darkest desire as
my sword, bloody and oh so beautiful
and i will finally look
like the terrible thing
i have always been

haven't you always
wanted power beyond
sense, haven't you asked for it
in your most sinful nights, sworn to pay
whatever the cost? i am not here to answer
or lend grace, perhaps you do not understand
how this actually works. i think
you should be very afraid.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Content Warning: Everything

“no one raises their voice in my house no one lays their fleshy hands on me no one is cruel if they are fool enough to try then they die and what a death what a death to not be loved by me anymore”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Content Warning: Everything

“7. 'i missed not existing”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Content Warning: Everything