Tutku

“It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“Her shoulders are trembling, but no sound escapes her lips. Did no one tell her it is painful to cry silently?”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer