Hannah

“Sanity," she says to the ground, "is a mutual agreement between folks trying to control their world.”
― Phyllis Alesia Perry, Stigmata

“She could not tell anyone, but it seemed to her that with each baby lost, another part of the rope bridge linking her to the world at large had snapped and fallen away, until only the flimsiest thread kept her connected to that world, kept her sane”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Second in this Strange World & How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Mbiu, with a loneliness, a disquiet inside her, and beyond that, a swirling presence, something at once strange and familiar. A sadness”
― Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost

“What might be behind that anguish? Is it that we want to put our faith in humanity, and when that faith is shaken, we feel as though our very selves are being destroyed? Is it that we want to love humanity, and this is the agony we feel when that love is shattered?
Does love beget pain, and is some pain evidence of love?”
― Han Kang, Light and Thread