Maame

Maame a novel by Jessica George is a story about a young woman who navigates life,love and family in London while dealing with her father's Parkinson's disease and her mother's overbearing nature. Quotes A person’s troubles are not measured by the size of those troubles, but by how much they weigh on the individual carrying them. Everyone talks about the importance of standing out but never the benefits of fitting in. There’s often a misconception that to be well-loved, the love has to come from multiple sources, when truthfully, one or two people can love you with the strength of ten. It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person. Quote on love Some things you’re not meant to be saved from,” Nia says. “Some things have to be lessons. How do you know if you're genuinely happy or if you're just mostly all right, with sprinkles of laughter and occasional shit storms of sadness? We grow up fast. Not by force, but because we are needed.'I think sometimes we're needed for the wrong reasons. I don't think you turn thirty and become immune to mistake-making or lesson learning. You grow wiser (supposedly) but never omniscient. There's always something you need to be taught, and so you keep learning and you keep growing up- until you're dead. Regardless of how you behave, a lot of things are going to be out of your control because this world was made to test you. Protect your peace in whatever and every way that you can. For some reason, at night, when you’re meant to be sleeping, your brain wants answers to everything. One day we’ll be orphans; one day I’ll be faced with the question of: who am I without my parents? A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. External Links