Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables. - Tsitsi Dangarembga

Stars below instead of above! I wanted to see them straight away. I prayed for a miracle, for the sun to set.

Plunging into these books I knew I was being educated and I was filled with gratitude to the authors for introducing me to places where reason and inclination were not at odds. It was a centripetal time, with meat the centre, everything gravitating towards me. It was a time of sublimation with me as the sublimate.

You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discouragement up in the glamour of intellect.