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“What can he [Ettore Navarra] know except what he sees while staring at that young woman [Hirut] grasping knotted red silk as if she were born to be draped in it: a beauty incomprehensible and ferocious, strong enough to break through bone and settle into a heart and split it forever.” — Maaza Mengiste

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What can he [Ettore Navarra] know except what he sees while staring at that young woman [Hirut] grasping knotted red silk as if she were born to be draped in it: a beauty incomprehensible and ferocious, strong enough to break through bone and settle into a heart and split it forever.
— Maaza Mengiste