Afifa Mehmood

“And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I have no words — alas! — to tell
The loveliness of loving well!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

“I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.”
― Clare Balding, My Animals and Other Family

“Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.”
― Melodie Ramone, After Forever Ends