Mehreen Ali

“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
― Paul Farmer

“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
― Daisy Bates