Emma Abdullah > Quotes

“Being the bearer of bad news is a terrible thing; sometimes you don't know if you'll have the words, the delicacy,the strength. You think of the person on the other side: how you're about to bring their world crashing down with a single phone call and deep inside them they'll hate you because their sorrow will just be searching for someone to blame. Then what do you say? That you're sorry? Sorry for what? They'll hate you even more because they'll know you're not sorry like they are. They'll know you haven't been destroyed like they have.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“Destruction makes people go away so,if you hide inside destruction,you're safe”
― Emma Abdullah

“When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“Sometimes you have to give in to life- it's only fair.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“I know it is not fair to expect love from someone who hardly knows you at all. I know that we are too young to understand and too old to understand and that perhaps nobody understands at all. I know that things happen for reasons we cannot comprehend and yet sometimes I really wish we could comprehend. I wish the world was not so dark. Sometimes it felt like somebody had turned off the lights and we were all suffocating in the darkness.”
― Emma Abdullah

“I became like all the others: those who looked but pretended not to see or those who simply turned their heads so there would be nothing to see at all.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“Maybe life just wants to be noticed, like a sulking toddler, so it will keep throwing things our way until we finally give it the attention it deserves.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“Maybe we all ought to feel sorry for ourselves because life is a tragedy and in the end we're all just little pieces stitched together desperately searching for something to hang on to.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“We live in a world where some people have already lost the game before having begun.”
― Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box

“There is no Richter scale to measure pain; it leaves you vulnerable. It's not pain you can get used to, not sorrow that you can tame.It leaves you broken, broken but alive.”
― Emma Abdullah

“How dare I be intolerant when I myself am made up of contradictions?”
― Emma Abdullah