Farida Z

“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

“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

“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom,”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

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