Youmna

“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“I want people to stop asking if I love this country. No. Ask if it loves me.”
― Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

“Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

“I’ve only ever known myself in song, between notes, in that place where language won’t suffice but the drums might, might speak for us, might speak for what is on our hearts.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds