Kate

“Expensive restaurants have bigger gaps between the tables. First class on airplanes has no middle seats. Exclusive hotels have separate entrances for guests staying in suites. The most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is distance.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The stupidest thing people who have everything think about people who have nothing is that it's pride that stops a person from asking for help.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I'm not sure my belief matters," he says. "If it is, it is, whether I believe it or not." page 161”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“But as you are young, I am old, and in my age, wisdom becomes less of a birthright and more of an expectation. In my life, the one thing I have learned above all is that no individual can reach the height of their potential without the love of others. We are not meant to be alone, Shahrzad. The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath & the Dawn