Farida Z

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“he puts his hand back down as fast as it went up and gets out his phone like everyone does now when they want to leave without leaving.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record