Sadaf

“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“I am everyone’s friend,’ I said. ‘Except to my enemies.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.”
― Helen Macdonald

“Government succeeds by failing.”
― L.K. Samuels