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“To the girls with softer dreams – your purpose is just as powerful!”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Shh.” I run a hand down the length of her curls, feeling a hiccup jostle her body. “You did the right thing. Run to me. Always run to me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved. One, a friend. The other, unfinished. And that alone is what I took with me into the next life. But I watched, warm and bright and high above. Just as he promised.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“I always wondered how something could shine so bright, even while being swallowed in darkness.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“I had never known happiness before her. But if there is to be an after in which she doesn’t exist, I know I never will again.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“She’s counting the stars. I break. All of me. Every inch of my being shattering at the realization.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Thanks for picking the closest star, Dena.’ I take a shaky breath. Forty, forty-one, forty-two… ‘Looks like you’ll be around to keep me company.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“You are the sweetest thing I have never tasted.” Another brush of his knuckles. “And I doubt I’ve craved anything more.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Well, I would catch you, Dena, but it seems we’re going down together.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“He makes me happy, for whatever absurdly odd reason. He’s not exactly a ray of sunshine, but perhaps something equivalent to moonlight. Mysterious and unnerving. Equally as beautiful, yet, soft enough to stare at.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Homes tend to hurt you the most.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“Maybe that's what living is--recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“I'm not a violent person. I'm not advocating violence. But I am an angry person. I'm advocating for more people to get angry. Get moved.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― S.K. Ali, Saints and Misfits

“The world is a mysterious place. On the one hand, its size can be measured and recorded and verified. Its marvels and oddities captured in complex, empirical detail.
On the other hand, its size is relative to our mind’s perception of it. Its marvels and oddities only extending to how far our vision goes.
For some of us, this means the world is small, including only those we see as belonging to it. People related to us, people who look like us, dress like us, think like us.
For others, it’s medium-size and includes those we connect to through some similarity, some trait that pings familiarity within, which then allows us to overlook the differences between us and them.
And then there are those who see the world as huge, as the actual size it measurably is.
Huge enough to include vast differences, people with nothing in common with one another except a beating heart and a feeling soul, these two—heart, soul—being the strongest connection between us all.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“Your resistance to my existence is futile.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“This is a love story. You’ve been warned.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“I was in this weird space of wanting not to be alone and wanting not to be crowded, either.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“They say friends are the family you choose”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“Human rights. For everyone. Because that was the only way the world made sense. When the arc of care went far and wide, it journeyed and battled to exclude none.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“Life goes on, even if love doesn't.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“I’m someone who gets consumed by stuff. It engulfs me, wraps me up in its embrace, and doesn’t let me be until I’ve deal with it.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“One of the reasons Ayaan said she loves being Muslim is because it makes her feel like a natural feminist. "Like hello? Our queen Khadija didn't wait for the man she had her eye on to ask her, to get on his knees. Nope. Instead, she said, 'I like you, oh employee of mine. Will you marry me?' And then, after they hitched, she just kept her job as his boss. Mad respect.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“We're allowed to cry.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“But it's not smooth sailing"
"Life isn't?”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“There are a lot of ways to show our faith and love to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. You pick the ones that are right for who you are right now.”
― S.K. Ali, Once Upon an Eid

“How do you wash off what can't be seen?”
― S. K. Ali

“the why you do something is important.”
― S.K. Ali, Saints and Misfits

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me