Ozie

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“And looking around the room, I remember thinking that my reading differences were like dragging a concrete block around every day, and how I felt sorry for myself. Now I realise that everyone has their own blocks to drag around. And they all feel heavy.”
― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish in a Tree

“Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet