Inês Sousa

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“So Lydia is worried about all these things, and yet, she has a new understanding about the futility of worry. The worst will either happen or not happen, and there’s no worry that will make a difference in either direction. Don’t think.”
― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

“Why is it so hard to say no to everyone except myself?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“Time may pass, but the memory of the people we've loved doesn't grow old. It is only we who age.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World