Hamid Khawaja

“If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. This way, people can’t see you with the thing to be reminded that you are a shameless thief and that you stole it from them, so I don’t know what the white people were trying to do in the first place, stealing not just a tiny piece but a whole country. Who can ever forget you stole something like that?”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

“May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are.”
― Jodi Livon

“Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.”
― Touaxia Vang