Amr Jal

“That’s what the Stoics believed—Zeno and Seneca, those ancient fuckers. The trick, I now agreed, was you had to remain unattached to any future wishes or vision.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“The privilege of assimilation is that you are left alone. But assimilation must not be mistaken for power, because once you have acquired power, you are exposed, and your model minority qualifications that helped you in the past can be used against you, since you are no longer invisible.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“Writers fight in our own ways. In the end it has something to do with accepting life as it unfolds, accepting other people. It means understanding that it is our task to do good unto each other.”
― Nettie Jones, Fish Tales