Tuuli

“The Israelis I met didn’t seem hunted or haunted. They were living their lives, going to cafés and clubs, dating and drinking and dancing. They just weren’t doing it anywhere near the doors.”
― Shannon Leone Fowler, Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir

“I love you.” Julian spoke without looking at him. He was watching the ceiling fan slice uselessly through the thick air. “I really do. I wish you could tell.”
― Micah Nemerever

“Tuesday, 9th Novermber 2004
Bleeped awake at 3AM from my first half hour shut-eye in three shifts to prescribe a sleeping pill to a patient whose sleep is evidently much more important than mine. My powers are greater than I realised; I arrive on the ward to find the patient is asleep.”
― Adam Kay, This Is Going To Hurt

“It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah