I’ve always believed in God.

I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment,

the capacity to believe,

or at some point in your life,

when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself,

you simply make an agreement.

— Stephen King

I would say it was too late, but time has stopped meaning what it used to. I don’t mind anymore. I see how things work now, from this side. I was born and I died. I will come back. Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive.

— Akwaeke Emezi

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