Katie Durow

“Educated, idealistic men began our revolution, but every time I looked into this boy soldier’s face and he spoke his chipped Arabic, with his cigarettes yellowing his teeth, I knew the uneducated would have the final say in my country’s future.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“May you live long enough to know why you were born.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow