Noor

“Trotting along his life will run a ghost life, a life in which Connor is killed on this night.”
― Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds

“beautiful glass paperweight from a museum gift shop in Rome.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“even now, all these centuries later, for all our technological advances, all our scientific knowledge of illness, we still don’t always know why one person gets sick and another doesn’t, or why one patient survives and another dies. Illness frightens us because it’s chaotic. There’s an awful randomness about it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“A significant portion of the South Asian experience, at least from what I have seen among brown friends and my own family members, is about seeming a certain way to give off the impression of stability and status, at the expense of emotional needs.”
― Sopan Deb, Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me