Ali Usman

“Je suis toutes ces choses. Toutes ces choses, mais j'ai déjà eu une mère, et elle m'aimait.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
― Timothy Leary

“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees