Malayna Nutt

“Comrade,’ said Snowball, ‘those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
― Aisling Rawle, The Compound

“She was a lot, but she was still someone you wanted to be around: she had that kind of energy.”
― Aisling Rawle, The Compound

“Everyone dies, of course, every single person, but very few get to understand that they’re dying.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The artist would remember being fourteen as feeling like he was always homesick, because he realized as an adult that that was what the emptiness in his chest was: some of us are born in the wrong place, the whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island, we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet. That’s all childhood friends are, people stuck on the same island. If you find a single one of them, you can cope with almost anything.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends