Heba Jamal

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”
― Lang Leav

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. His suffering and happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.”
― Emil Dorian, Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944