Mona

“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“Racist insults leave you feeling dirty because, even at five years old, we already know
on some level that, in this society at least, we are indeed lesser citizens with all
the baggage of racialised history following us ghost-like about our days. We are
conquered people living in the conquerors’ land, and as such we are people
without honour. At five years old we are already conscious of the offence caused
by our black body turning up in the wrong space, and have begun to internalise
the negative ideas about blackness so present in the culture.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name