Iman Ibrahim

“I love you past the sun and the moon and the stars,” she’d always say to me when I was little. But I just want her to love me here. Now. On Earth.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“I think, ultimately, other people aren’t real to us until they’re suffering or gone. That’s when the imagination begins to work, trying to sort things out, trying to get them right, to understand them.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“You change the world by being yourself”
― Yoko Ono

“spring passes
and one remembers one's innocence
summer passes
and one remembers one's exuberance
autumn passes
and one remembers one's reverence
winter passes
and one remembers one's perseverance
there is a season that never passes and that is the season of glass

-- Season of Glass, 1981”
― Yoko Ono