Yusra Khan

“The presence of my mother / She is always present.”
― Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

“So now my prayer is this:

You, my own deep soul,
trust me. I will not betray you.
My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Dann bete du, wie es dich dieser Iehrt,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“You know who’s gonna give you everything? Yourself.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg