Diane

“I thought about how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it's this.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“he had given up gluten and diary and daughters.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“The main thing is that I think about you a lot, that's all. Dex and Em, Em and Dex. Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“But even so. The boy can't boil water or heat bread on the eye of the stove. Leaves the milk out of the fridge. Tries to cut an apple in the night and I wake up to blood spattered on the kitchen floor, seeds everywhere. There is all the evidence of a past tended by a woman's hands.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English