Drinking from Graveyard Wells Quotes

“I guess when you have nothing else to give your children, you give them spite.”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

“When death comes to find you, may it find you alive.”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

“The gunmen were swift breaking into her house, blindfolding her, and shoving her into the back of an Isuzu. Neighbors saw the whole thing, but who can call the police when the gunmen are the police?”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

“The wretched of the earth are not meant to make art, we are supposed to be too busy surviving.”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

“I yearn for a casket and fresh earth to cover me;”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

“Even in death, I am since we are, and since we are, therefore I am.”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories

“We would like to welcome, all the way from Kenya, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, the author of And This Is How to Stay Alive, a powerful book about grief, loss, and a sister who time-travels to save her brother from death.”
― Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories