Rowa Al-Suhaili

“I would like to pause the story a moment to talk about ‘nothing will change’. I’ve heard it said to me repeatedly by women I love during my twenties when they move in with boyfriends, get engaged, move abroad, get married, get pregnant. ‘Nothing will change.’ It drives me bananas. Everything will change. Everything will change. The love we have for each other stays the same, but the format, the tone, the regularity and the intimacy of our friendship will change for ever.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Selvom verden var blevet én stor online social netværksklub på tværs af landegrænser og nationalitet, levede vi tilsyneladende stadig i bobler, hvor andres ulykke kun vedkom os, hvis det vakte genkendelse i os selv. Der var mere genkendelse i tragedien ved maratonløbet i et land, som vi kulturelt sammenlignede os med, end i angreb på syriske byer, ingen havde hørt om.”
― Puk Damsgård, Hvor solen græder: En fortælling fra Syrien

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner