Shani Zhang

“I am surrounded by people nervous of their own opinions.”
― Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

“Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand”
― Raymond Carver, Cathedral

“Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.”
― Raymond Carver, Cathedral