Aline Vasconcelos

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

“It's strange, how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The place that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other place takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.”
― Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting