Zoë

“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire

“I once overheard a young white man at a book festival say to his friend, “Have you read the new Kureishi? Same old thing—loads of Indian people.” To which you want to reply, “Have you read the new Franzen? Same old thing—loads of white people.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro