Bianca Alvarez-Jackson

“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai