Mélodie

“I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.”
― Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

“There is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty