Alalalah

“Numbers are simple, obedient things, as long as you understand the rules they live by. Words are trickier. They twist and bite and require too much attention.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“أَنا مِنْ هُنَا، وأَنا مِنْ هُناكَ. وَلَسْتُ هُنَاكَ ولْستُ هُنَا”
― Tahar Das, Whispers of Existence: Mahmoud Darwish Bilingual Poetic Odyssey

“If I were normal, I might’ve cried. Instead I’d sit there, clutching the vase, and just fucking shake. Like there were emotions deep in me, but too many layers of ash lay over them, deadening them to nothing but a tectonic murmur.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers