Katie Durow

“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

“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“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 remember we crossed a bridge and it trembled underneath our feet because we were so many people.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria