Anna

“I didn't choose for my job to be a secret, Nasnet said. It's ironic, though. Society makes it so and then they try to oust you and ostracize you for the secret they have demanded and imposed in the first place.”
― Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue

“It's not the actual crime that makes me want to leave, it's the possibility that it can happen any time, any second now, even in the next minute. That it might never happen at all, but I think it will happen any second now for the next ten years. Even if it never comes, the point is I'll be waiting for it and the wait is just as bad because you can't do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you. This applies to good stuff too. It never happens. All you have is the waiting for it.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Like justice, it existed in theory.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People