Anika

“Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August