Afshan Ejaz

“Why do adults do this? Why do they promise things they have no way of being able to deliver?”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“Some words are more important than others—I learned this, growing up in the Scriptorium. But it took me a long time to understand why.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“You can never change back once you’ve had a child, even if that child no longer exists.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow