“She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had happened. Yes, Allah is expecting her to be patient and keep on marching forward” DeathLife PhilosophySadDespairTragedy Book:After the Storm Source: After the Storm
“You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.” DeathLife LessonsGoodnessGuiltRhysOpportunities In Life Book:Like The Starlings Source: Like The Starlings
“It was too easy to lie, when you’d practised it a few times. It was hard the first time, but once it flow from your tongue like the perfect summer breeze, and everybody seemed to believe in it, it became mundane. You’d just have to program it first, copy and paste the same old sentences all over again.” LifeLiesNormality Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“Sometimes, things didn't always happen as we wanted them to.” LifeDestinyFate Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.” Life And LivingMothers And DaughtersMaternal LoveLailaDilemmaa Book:Like The Starlings Source: Like The Starlings
“A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.” InspirationalMotivationalInspirational LoveMotivational Quotes For Women Book:After the Storm Source: After the Storm
“There was this saying that kept on haunting her mind – tears make you seem weak. And she wasn’t weak. It was just that sometimes when she was all alone, it had made everything seemed so much real and convincing.” RealityLostTearsFear Of Unknown Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“But, when he saw that glint of happiness in his father’s eyes in the middle of his sentence, he decided that he wanted it to stay that way.” LifeLost LoveHope And DespairSon And Father Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.” PastHopeBroken HeartTornWishful ThinkingGhosts Of The Past Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“I thought about how the smallest of things could set someone on a bustling fire when you didn't have the right shoulder to lean on.” HopeGrief And LossRhysBreaking DownTrials Of Life Book:Like The Starlings Source: Like The Starlings
“I didn’t ask for any of this, dad. I didn’t ask to be so unfortunate in everything I do. I didn’t ask to be born like this, and I most certainly didn’t ask to be like how everybody was calling me, a child who brought disgrace.” - Sasha” InnocentConflicting EmotionsIllegitimate Child Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“You know, when you talked about good days and bad days, do you think right now counts as the good days?” “It depends. How do you feel right now?” Rania closed her eyes when she said, “I feel strange. I haven’t felt like this for a long time.” Zaheed took a deep breath. “How so?” She shrugged. “Perhaps, it’s because I’m in a whole new place, where I haven’t set my foot before; the air smelt different and I’m talking to a stranger. It made me feel like I’ve just had all my memories erased and replaced with new ones.” LifeNew DawnNew Days Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“The scar she'd left her was so deep that it may take a thousand million years to heal. She couldn't pretend like nothing had happened. She couldn't shut her feelings, like how you shut a window blind; once you did it, all lights from the outside would be swept away from the room. It had taken her years to acknowledge the fact that she was unwanted; a subject of shame for her mother to sink in. And for sure, it would take her more than nine years to forget it all, in one go.” LostBrokenForgivenessUnwanted ChildShadow Child Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured.” LifeFamilyFaultEstrangementUnwanted Child Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“It really was a blessing after the storm.” Inspirational QuotesLife LessonsCalamity And Attitude Book:After the Storm Source: After the Storm
“A few years ago, she thought someone had finally come to love her and accepted her unconditionally, but she was wrong. You couldn’t really define love with money. It was more than that.” Unconditional LoveShadow Child Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight
“What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.” HurtTears Of Life Book:One Minute to Midnight Source: One Minute to Midnight