Ayesha

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“...she looks up from her book with a dazed expression he's used to wearing himself, the disorientation of being pulled out of one world and back into an other”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea