sarah

“And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?”
― Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

“Why did I remember only his disappointment in me?
Did I ever get to know who he was becoming?
Did I try?”
― Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The rook is my favourite piece,’ she said. ‘It’s the one that you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You keep your eye on the queen, and the knights, and the bishop, because they are the sneaky ones. But it’s the rook that often gets you. The straightforward is never quite what it seems.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library