Danya

“As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”
― Leila Aboulela, The Kindness of Enemies

“She knows that the woman is not in Brooklyn, standing on Flatbush Avenue, but home. She went crazy in America, her mind halting in the loneliness, anxiety, and the soundlessness of things falling apart: a sweet surrender. What a relief it must be, Patsy thinks, to stare into the eyes of sorrow and break without the pretense of holding it together.”
― Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn, Patsy

“A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, The Night Masquerade

“We'll never know exactly why we are, what we are, and so on. All you can do is follow your path all the way to the wilderness, and then you continue along because that's what must be.”
― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death