Ushnaa

“Mothers are strange; they will try to protect you from the entire world, from their barbs and their critiques and their judgement, but the one person they will forget to protect you from is themselves.”
― Hafsa.A. Jawad, The Tales of Arcana Fortune

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“I no longer feel the responsibility to give humans eyes for humanity.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

“the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to transform himself into an animal.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism