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“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

“It helps to find solace in the larger universe, especially when your internal world isn't hospitable.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best.”
― Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir