Kerry

“We judge those who are guilty only of seeing the world differently from the rest. That's our crime.”
― Stela Brinzeanu, Bessarabian Nights

“Afsoos was the word in Urdu. There was no equivalent in English. It was a specific kind of regret - not wishing he had acted differently, but a helpless sadness at the situation as it was, a sense that it could not have been another way.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“It's important to be close to nature in proximity, but connecting to it is what leads to transformation.”
― Stela Brinzeanu, Bessarabian Nights

“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn’t miss an appointment, it never has.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling