Farzana

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

“When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson