Nadia B

“You need something like a lifeline that's connecting you to hope. So that you don't go crazy. So that you can keep breathing when one day feels like ten years.

When basic instinct takes over instead of reason, maybe you need to believe in a concept like love to bear everything.”
― Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass

“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect: This was true for Jim and Helen, and for Margaret and himself, as well.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men