Beatrice

“Readers make their own personal connections to words, irrespective of the writer's intentions, and each reader gains something unique.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

“In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.”
― Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for is in the Library

“I left you there because I have never loved anything in my life like I love you. Not Isolde. Not the trade. Nothing.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“The west you talk about doesn’t exist. It’s a fairytale, a fantasy you sell yourself because the alternative is to admit that you are the least important character in your own story. You invent an entire world because your conscience demands it, you invent good people and bad people and you draw a neat line between them because your simplistic morality demands it. But the two kinds of people in this world are not good and bad, they are engines and fuel. Go ahead, change your country, change your name, change your accent, pull the skin right off your bones, but in their eyes they will always be the engines and you will always, always be fuel.”
― Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise