Hani

“understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts, there are very few people of colour and no clear explanation of why that might be. So a story that has so much to say about racism on an allegorical level at the same time depicts people of colour as marginal without exploring their marginalisation. Malorie”
― Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

“I have fought for independence here, and freedom too. More and more I find they’re not at all the same thing.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society