Lindsi

“I've never been angry to have been born a woman. There have been times I've been angry at how the world treats us, but I see being a woman as a challenge I must fight. Like being born under a stormy sky. Some people are lucky enough to be born on a bright summer's day. Maybe we were born under clouds. No wind. No rain. Just a mountain of clouds we must climb each morning so that we may see the sun.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist

“Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk through all of them.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“Books crow-bar the world open for you.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers