Naima Subba

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan-the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past- and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run.
In the end, I ran.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“You spent so much time explaining yourself, your work, to others that it was a relief to simply be with another person to whom you didn't have to explain anything.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life