em

“But when they laugh, you can see the world in their eyes.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“We all have yavashaki, or stealthy, moments, but we become powerful as women the moment we stop living a lie.”
― Masih Alinejad, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

“And a naïve part of me thinks that since we have made it this far, we will make it forever. If we existed for even a second, we could exist eternally.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations