Rowa Al-Suhaili

“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

“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

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

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life