Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

A person doesn't mourn forever.

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.

I find reading to be a delight, a source of comfort, a way to explore.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.