Julia Sng

“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?”
― Zadie Smith

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well