Mariam Moin

“But the vast majority of successful people don't become bastards, we were bastards long before. That's why we've been successful.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.”
― David Whyte, The House of Belonging

“You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten—in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline