Caroline Builta

“She had wriggled into his arms and wrapped herself around him. “No one’s
ever hurt the people who hurt me,” she’d whispered, feeling horribly young.
Ahmed had held her tightly.
“Give me their names,” he’d said. She’d burst into tears then and he
murmured sounds until she cried herself to sleep. Souraya never gave him the
names.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Little Rot

“She couldn’t imagine loving someone so much that you mourned their absence even in their presence.”
― Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

“When we trust that we are the ocean, we are not afraid of the waves.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

“The deepest transformations in our lives come down to something very simple: We learn to respond, not react, to what is going on inside us.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN