Dionne Brand quotes:

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

..would I have had a different lifefailing this embrace with broken things,iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracksin the brain, would I know these particular facts,how a phrase scars a cheek, how waterdries love out, this, a thought as casualas any second eviscerates a breath.

..would I have had a different lifefailing this embrace with broken things,iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracksin the brain, would I know these particular facts,how a phrase scars a cheek, how waterdries love out, this, a thought as casualas any second eviscerates a breath."

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.