Amna

“Even the best of men can’t know what it’s like to go through the world as a person with a body which some other people treat as an access-all-areas amusement arcade.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Life is a wonderful, mesmerizing, magical, fun, silly thing. And humans are astounding. We all know we’re going to die, and yet we still live. We shout and curse and care when the full bin bag breaks, yet with every minute that passes we edge closer to the end. We marvel at a nectarine sunset over the M25 or the smell of a baby’s head or the efficiency of flat-pack furniture, even though we know that everyone we love will cease to exist one day. I don’t know how we do it.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“You are not here to be consumed. You are here to live a life that isn't interrupted by someone else's chaos.”
― Chidera Eggerue, How To Get Over A Boy

“I am always half in life, half in a fantastical version of it in my head.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love