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The moment I started reading this book I knew that it was going to take at least six months for me to finish digesting it. It's not a book for reading only, it is a book for contemplation and self-realisation for me. Only from reading the first few pages, her eloquence and attentiveness to the significance of small moments are already encapsulating me.

These young women were not looking to Washington, as Malcolm X might have feared, nor were they waiting to be asked to speak. They were complete unto themselves, as in the line from one of Alice Walker’s poems in Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously
For its Self

Page 62:
If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them.
If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live.
If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

My favourite sentence so far:
"I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so."

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway