Angie Hammad

“I learned then that history was my favorite subject. You wear strength so well, I forget that you have to take it off at the end of the day, still feeling the marks that it leaves on your soul.”
― Todd B. LaBerge, Unwritten Letters to You

“He is one of those unidentifiable people who inhabit the city at night. Mari”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Males always have something pathetic about them, at every age. A fragile arrogance, a frightened audacity. I no longer know, today, if they ever aroused in me love or only an affectionate sympathy for their weaknesses.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“This doesn’t happen. People aren’t forgotten like this. Not abandoned like this.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unite Me