Komal Nadeem

“It's amazing how good it feels to talk about him. How I realize that even though we're over, what we had was true. You can't fake that. I still love him and I really believe he loved me, too.”
― Nyrae Dawn, Measuring Up

“Only those who never step, never stumble.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

“All pain is the same. Only the details are different.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds