Alex

“Imagine the places you grew up, the places you studied, places that belonged to your people, burned. But I should stop pretending that I know you. Perhaps you do not have to imagine. Perhaps your library, too, went up in smoke.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

“I never believed the stars governed our lives; at least, I don't think I did then. I am not so sure now. Everything seems to have a shape pulled and turned by an unseen hand. Perhaps the stars are its fingertips”
― Romesh Gunesekera, Suncatcher

“Now that I’ve forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“When you say see you tomorrow to someone, it's because you're going to keep seeing them. It's like at school you see everybody because they go to school every day.
But when you graduate and you don't go to school any more, it stops and you don't see everybody any more. If you want to see somebody, you have to make plans to meet, or even make plans to make plans, and next thing you end up not seeing them any more. That's what's going to happen. If you don't see somebody, you end up never seeing them. And then there's going to be nothing left of them at all.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Ms Ice Sandwich