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“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“لقد ذهبت يا جميلتي، في السهب الشتسع دون ان تلتفت الى الوراء.لعلك تعبت، وربما فقدت ثقتك بنفسك؟ إتكئي على دانيار، دعيه يغني لكِ أغنية عن الحب، عن الأرض، عن الحياة، فليتمايل السهب وليتألق بكل الألوان، إذهبي يا جميلة بلا ندم، فقد وجدتِ سعادتك العصية”
― Chingiz Aitmatov, Jamilia

“The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time