Safia

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“Not all books received as gifts are transformative, of course. Sometimes the only thing a book gives its reader is a paper cut.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Gifts of Reading

“Whenever I listened to his friends speak about issues like prison reform, climate change, the opioid epidemic, in the simultaneously intelligent but utterly vacuous way of people who think it's important simply to weigh in, to have an opinion, I would bristle. I would think, What is the point of all of this talk? What problems do we solve by identifying problems, circling them?”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Every beautiful thing cracks and shatters and collapses and crumples and bleeds. If not now, it will eventually.”
― Han Yujoo, The Impossible Fairy Tale