Natalie

“And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she would die this way. Now so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of legitimate beginnings.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis