Aziza

“most kids took for granted—a life with a loving family, a friend or two, a supportive community. A life of people who noticed you were there … or, dare I say it, wanted you there?”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Friends are like oxygen. If you’ve been blessed enough to have always been surrounded by friends, you might think I’m overplaying this. I don’t blame you. If you’d always been surrounded by air, you wouldn’t think to credit it for your very existence either. But I’ve spent much of my life gasping for breath, so I promise you, it’s true. Friends are like oxygen.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Punctuality, it seems, has joined common sense and properly made furniture on the growing list of things that no longer exist.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Adults were always doing this, in my experience, saying one thing and meaning another, the truth a blur in between.”
― Jennie Godfrey, The List of Suspicious Things