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“Hell: a personalised service.”

Hell Afterlife Dark Humour

Book:Come Let Us Sing Anyway

Source: Come Let Us Sing Anyway

“If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind.”

Book:Popisho

Source: Popisho

“She can’t remember the last time she spoke to a man who was listening.”

Book:Come Let Us Sing Anyway

Source: Come Let Us Sing Anyway

“All the time she had been grasping the air with her hands, in an impassioned effort to express herself. 'Here was not just food, but an experience. It was all of Popisho, the smells and textures, it was - it was - all our love and our losses and our beauty, struggles, history, our childhoods ... it was perfect, it was perfect for me.”

Magic Food Macaenus

Book:Popisho

Source: Popisho

“Today I feel like a bride. Fragrant. I am every love song ever played. I am pink confetti. I am the wedding march personified. I am God’s best promise, an open sack, waiting to be filled with matrimonially blessed seed. I am hope.”

Love Wedding Matrimony

Book:Come Let Us Sing Anyway

Source: Come Let Us Sing Anyway

“A final giggle slid off the side of his mouth and fell into the sand, foaming. They watched it for a while.”

Metaphor Beach Sand Imagery Magical Realism

Book:Popisho

Source: Popisho

“Generally, men told stories to boast, but women were different. They wanted to look at their words in the air and extract the meaning, and if you shut up and listened, they'd tell you very interesting things indeed.”

Wisdom Feminism Female

Book:Popisho

Source: Popisho

“Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties.”

Magic Magical Realism Butterflies

Book:Popisho

Source: Popisho