Aimee Dars

“Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.”
― Danzy Senna, New People

“You are a pug! Master of the universe! King of the curly tails! You can do anything! You can lick your own nose, for goodness sake.”
― Gemma Correll, The Little Pocket Book of Pug Wisdom: Lessons in life and love for the well-rounded pug

“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak