Natalia

“Humans are strange that way, full of contradictions. It's as if they need to hate and exclude as much as they need to love and embrace.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Listen, canim, I know you might get cross with me for saying this, but remember, good advice is always annoying and bad advice never is. So if what I say irritates you, take it as good advice.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“It contained Nina's favorite saying: You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill