Shehrezad

“I don’t pretend to know much about people,” she offered, fixing her eyes on the road ahead, “but one thing I’ve noticed over the years is that some people are nice and some people are kind. Lillian sounds like she’s more nice than she is kind. Does that make sense? Niceness is good manners, and stopping to give someone directions, and smiling at the overworked cashier at the supermarket. These are all good things, but they have nothing to do with what’s underneath. Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“Hard times come to make you quit or to make you stronger”
― Manuel Corazzari

“It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Somali parents are very, very caring. I have a great deal of sympathy for them and give them extra credit. That generation left the war, left behind their homes, didn’t know what life would be, got educated, worked hard, and raised families in a new country. And then their children believe that their parents know nothing. “You don’t understand.” But they understand more than you think. Because if the situation was reversed, could the children do what their parents did?”
― Ayaan Adan, Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women