24 Quotes by Angela Flournoy

Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do.

Cha-Cha favored short, earnest prayer, and he often wondered what took others so long., It had something to do with excess supplication, he suspected. He never presented a long list of specific requests to God, had always felt uncomfortable with the presumptuousness of “Ask and you shall receive.” This might have been a result of pride, or his own middling ambition, but mostly Cha-Cha’s prayers were a series of thank-yous and I’m sorrys.

The same quality that read as dependable and even-keeled in his youth had crusted over and become stubborn and pitiable.

There ain’t no haints in Detroit.

Where do the homeless make toast?

The words settled on her shoulders like a curse, and one thing was clear: there was no one to save her but her.