Shaikha Showaiter

“I felt Nairobi's foreignness — or really, my own foreignness in relation to it — immediately, even in the first strains of morning. It's a sensation I've come to love as I've traveled more, the way a new place signals itself instantly and without pretense. The air has a different weight from what you're used to; it carries smells you can't quite identify, a faint whiff of wood smoke or diesel fuel, maybe, or the sweetness of something blooming in the trees. The same sun comes up, but looking slightly different from what you know.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram