Amina Rayan

“...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.”
― Sara Nović, Girl at War

“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Er trat ruhig und gelassen auf den Tisch zu. Ohne sich vorzustellen - >Ihr wißt, wer ich bin, und wer ihr seid, interessiert mich nicht<, schien diese Unhöflichkeit zu besagen -, begann er mit fachmännischer Trockenheit die sachlichen Anordnungen.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story that wasn’t in the words – a story of despair, of loneliness, of frustration. It was a story that all of them knew by heart and had always known because they had learned it soon after they were born and would go on adding to it until the day they died.”
― Ann Petry, The Street