Zara

“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“I had no explanation for the deaths of some and the hatred of others. Perhaps this was what war meant: understanding nothing.”
― Gaël Faye, Petit pays

“The patriarchal family made its appearance, founded on the sole and personal property of the father, who had become head of the family. Within this family the woman was oppressed.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle