Zainab

“An audience can go back and watch a film any number of times they want. It's always there for them. For the cast and crew, the relationship with a film is more complex. The magic is in the making, and that process is a discreet unit of time in the past. You can reflect on that unit of time, you can be proud of it, but you can't revisit it.”
― Tom Felton, Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

“Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“Male writers are thought of as "writers" first and then "men". As for female writers, they are first "female" and only then "writers".”
― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within

“TOM Do you want to practise slapping me? EMMA (brow furrowed) Excuse me? TOM Because in the next film, that’s what you do. You slap me. (lying through his teeth) I just read it! EMMA OK, great. TOM (mansplaining) Right. So. Here’s what you do. You need to stand there, you need to use your body, you need to put everything into it to sell it, you need to… While Tom is talking, Emma calmly sizes him up, raises one hand and—not realising that he was talking about a stage slap—cracks him as hard as she can across the cheek.”
― Tom Felton, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard