Mina Rehman > Quotes

“You see, I have trouble with authority. Whenever someone tells me to do something, I get the sudden and very strong urge to do the exact opposite. Sometimes I can control it.
But mostly I just lose.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“You have always been, and will always be, you.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“For as long as I remember, you've been my lifeline. Every possible future I've imagined, you've always been in it. Funny how I always imagined happily-ever-afters as if we were living in a fairy tale.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“Looking for "the one" is like looking for a unicorn. They don't exist. So you have to glue an ice cream cone to a horse's forehead and take it.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“You're a diamond. Never sell yourself as coal.”
― Mina Rehman

“Even though she looks the same as she always has, and the world goes on the way it always has, she isn’t the same on the inside. It’s as though she’s been paused on a single day, a single moment, as though she is stale, slowly rotting on the inside. It scares her, this standstill. There are days she wishes she’d corrode faster, until nothing is left. Those days are the worst, yet still somehow better than the ones in which she wants everything to go back to the way it was.”
― Mina Rehman, Women Who Slay Women

“It all just makes you feel insignificant, doesn’t it? You spend your life barely surviving the grind, living in an endless cycle, doing the same thing over and over again, depending on drugs and the numbness they bring to see another day… and it’s all for nothing. In the grand scheme of things, you’re nothing.'

He thinks on it for a while. ‘It makes a lot of things insignificant, true,’ he finally says. ‘The things we spend our lives worrying about, the pressure society puts on us… it suddenly seems like nothing in the face of the infinity of the universe or the endlessness of time. But look at yourself,’ he says.

She scrunches up her face, half frowning, half smiling. ‘Myself?’

‘Where did you come from?’

‘The city?’

‘Before that.’

‘Eh, my parents?’

He nods. ‘And where did your parents come from?’

‘Their parents,’ she says, smiling now but still confused.

‘Right. And we all come from this planet, which as far as we know, is the only place in the universe where life can naturally form and exist. The slightest change in temperature or pressure of the atmosphere, and that’ll be the end of us. But it’s not just that. For us to even have the smallest of chances to exist, Earth had to be just the right distance from the Sun, which had to be just the right temperature. Stars had to be born in the first place, atoms had to exist just the way they do. The Big Bang had to happen. For you to even be a possibility, the universe had to be born in just the right way.’ He turns to face her, and she returns his gaze. ‘We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman

“Blaming her meant that she was at fault, that she must have done something for this to happen to her. And so it could never happen to their innocent, sweet, obedient daughters.”
― Mina Rehman, Women Who Slay Women

“People do crazy things. Mostly because they don't realize how harmful those things can really be.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“She can’t move forward or backward. She is stuck in time. A constant.”
― Mina Rehman

“You are under no obligation to look pretty, least of all someone else’s definition of pretty.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“We all come from this planet, which as far as we know, is the only place in the universe where life can naturally form and exist. The slightest change in temperature or pressure of the atmosphere, and that’ll be the end of us. But it’s not just that. For us to even have the smallest of chances to exist, Earth had to be the right distance from the Sun, and the Sun had to be the right size and age. Stars had to be born in the first place, atoms had to exist exactly like they do. The Big Bang had to happen. For you to even be a possibility, the universe had to be born in just the right way.’ He turns to face her, and she returns his gaze. ‘We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“It all just makes you feel insignificant, doesn’t it? You spend your life barely surviving the grind, living in an endless cycle, doing the same thing over and over again, depending on drugs and the numbness they bring to see another day… and it’s all for nothing. In the grand scheme of things, you’re nothing.'

He thinks on it for a while. ‘It makes a lot of things insignificant, true,’ he finally says. ‘The things we spend our lives worrying about, the pressure society puts on us… it suddenly seems like nothing in the face of the infinity of the universe or the endlessness of time. But look at yourself,’ he says.

She scrunches up her face, half frowning, half smiling. ‘Myself?’

‘Where did you come from?’

‘The city?’

‘Before that.’

‘Eh, my parents?’

He nods. ‘And where did your parents come from?’

‘Their parents,’ she says, smiling now but still confused.

‘Right. And we all come from this planet, which as far as we know, is the only place in the universe where life can naturally form and exist. The slightest change in temperature or pressure of the atmosphere, and that’ll be the end of us. But it’s not just that. For us to even have the smallest of chances to exist, Earth had to be the right distance from the Sun, and the Sun had to be the right size and age. Stars had to be born in the first place, atoms had to exist exactly like they do. The Big Bang had to happen. For you to even be a possibility, the universe had to be born in just the right way.’ He turns to face her, and she returns his gaze. ‘We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“I loved the [postman]! He always brought me gifts. Granted, I ordered them AND paid for them, but still. It was like the guy was my very own Santa, bringing me whatever I wanted, without a Christmas restriction.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“Never say no to free food. Unless you are the free food.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“People do crazy things. Mostly because they don't truly realize how harmful those things can really be.”
― Mina Rehman

“For as long as I can remember, you’ve been my lifeline. Every possible future I thought up, you were always in it. Funny how I always imagined happily-ever-afters as if we were living in a fairy tale.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“The more attention you deprive something of, the more it ends up needing.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“We all come from this planet, which as far as we know, is the only place in the universe where life can naturally form and exist. The slightest change in temperature or pressure of the atmosphere, and that’ll be the end of us. But it’s not just that. For us to even have the smallest of chances to exist, Earth had to be just the right distance from the Sun, which had to be just the right temperature. Stars had to be born in the first place, atoms had to exist just the way they do. The Big Bang had to happen. For you to even be a possibility, the universe had to be born in just the right way. We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.”
― Mina Rehman, Dead Girl Haunting

“What a world she lives in, where only the rich can afford to get assaulted.”
― Mina Rehman

“In my defense, I was left unsupervised.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“We have survived witch trials and honour killings, rapes and acid attacks. We have died for our right to exist, and then stood right back up for our right to vote. We are warriors and our own heroes, the very least we deserve is each other’s love.”
― Mina Rehman, Women Who Slay Women

“Everyone knows what can happen to a woman, on the streets, in their own home, during the safety of the day, in the darkness of night. Yet still, when she dares speak of it, no one believes her.”
― Mina Rehman, Women Who Slay Women