Mariam

“If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

“But Mariam hardly noticed, hardly cared...the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, Hope, a treacherous illusion.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns