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“Our separate--and very different--evenings reminded me how far we'd drifted from each other. Our relationship, which at the best of times had felt platonic, now felt like an obstacle to our happiness. I was living with a roommate I had nothing in common with. And I had changed: I barely resembled my former self, the version of me who sought acceptance and security--or was it invisibility?--in a heterosexual marriage.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“There was going to be a battle something like if Godzilla met King Kong, or if Frankenstein met Dracula, or like when champion wrestler Bobo Brazil meets the Sheik!”
― Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

“Our understanding of the interior lives of those who are not like us is contingent on their ability to articulate themselves in the language we know.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People