Jilan Ali

“لا تستطيع المرأة الحديثة أن تنعم بالسكينة وهي محاصرة بمعرفة ما يحدث في جسدها الحامل يوماً بيوم.”
― إيمان مرسال, كيف تلتئم: عن الأمومة وأشباحها

“Ezra watches them leave with a bemused expression, then turns to me. “I have a really strong feeling that on Wednesdays, they wear pink.”
― Karen M. McManus, Two Can Keep a Secret

“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.”
― Virginia Woolf,

“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down