Mariama Kollie

“If you are In pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Then it hit me: dying is just like sleeping. You only know you’re sleeping when you wake up the next day, but if morning never comes, you sleep forever. That must be what death is like. When someone dies, they don’t even know they’re dead. Because they never see it happen, nobody ever really dies. This hit me like a sucker punch.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Men, they’ll hurt you without ever really knowing you,” she often told me. “But women… women will know you deeply, intimately, and then hurt you. You tell me which is worse.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died