Atoofa

“The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were damned.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them. Most important, the grand narratives of emancipation and enlightenment mobilized people in the colonial world to rise up and throw off imperial subjection; in the process, many Europeans and Americans were also stirred by these stories and their protagonists, and they too fought for new narratives of equality and human community.”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

“Those who educate us can never be forgotten. Wherever we are, they will always be in our heart and mind.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita