Malaika

“Hope is the lies we tell ourselves about the future.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“I had always expected I would see our Buddha again. But the storm of ignorance that has been raging in Afghanistan for so many decades smashed him to bits before I could return. I once lived inside his head. Now he lives in mine.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“I have long carried this load of griefs in the cage of my heart. Now I have given them to you. I hope you are strong enough to hold them.”
― Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story

“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird