Igor Poezd

“That was the thing about getting too much happiness at once. Without time to adjust, the pain of not having it suddenly became unbearable.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“At first glance, one might assume that a peacekeeping soldier from Pakistan, a diplomat from the United States, and a human rights advocate from Senegal would approach their jobs quite differently. Yet, while in Congo for a previous research project, I observed striking similarities in the ways that international interveners understand the situations they face and in the strategies they adopt, despite their otherwise extremely different national, professional, social, and economic backgrounds.”
― Severine Autesserre, Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

“What I can’t let go of is the way I tried just now to tell my mum my world was falling apart, and she left.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“It's hard to explain my life; it's kind of like a mash up. When you're a kid and you think it's a good idea to mix all the paint colors and you think it's going to be awesome, but you find out it just all turns black.”
― Andrea McKenna Brankin, Bipolar Phoenix: My F'ed Up Life and How I Fixed It