Alexis

“I can tell you that I believe—that the human heart’s mysterious ability to love others is never wrong. Your heart will never ask your permission to love. It’s going to love whomever it was made to love, and the best thing you can do is follow it.”
― Kelly Quindlen, Her Name in the Sky

“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“The miserable little encounter had nothing to do with me, the me of me, any more than it had to do with that silly clerk. The incident was a recurring dream, concocted years before by stupid whites and it eternally came back to haunt us all. The secretary and I were like Hamlet and Laertes in the final scene, where, because of harm done by one ancestor to another, we were bound to duel to the death. Also because the play must end somewhere.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library