Karen

“Being an outsider is humbling. It makes you realize the humanity of all outsiders. It opens up a great space of empathy between yourself and everyone else who looks like the are excluded from the group. This is a set of people rich in perspectives and experiences. It is often the outsider who has the most interesting view of what life is and can become.”
― Omar Saif Ghobash, Letters to a Young Muslim

“Because we all love imperfectly.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that waited.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“No one in this world comes from nothing.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton