Sadaf

“She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.”
― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

“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

“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

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