Belle

“I wish I were capable of being excited about a job, but that's never been the case for me. I have to scrounge for something to like, something that has nothing to do with the job itself. It always makes me feel broken, because I don't think it's like that for everyone.”
― Shauna Robinson, The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

“This was a learning exercise. Take me down some winding path, give me a dead end, and I'm supposed to put it all together as a metaphor for my friendship with Emily.”
― Natasha Deen, In the Key of Nira Ghani

“No path is a dead end. We're meant to walk around, get lost, and go the wrong way down the one-way street.”
― Natasha Deen, In the Key of Nira Ghani

“But most of all, I wanted to unlearn all the shame. I wanted to learn how to love and honor myself so I could know how to love and honor my children.”
― Etaf Rum, Mother Country