amira

“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Habibi. Hayati. Roohi.
My love, my life, my soul, the words meant, but their meanings went deeper than that.
Habibi was for friends and love that was real enough.
Hayati was when love became an all-encompassing thing. Deeper and deeper, until one became the others life.
Roohi was when a soul twined with its match and loved with the force of a thousand suns. When it slipped beneath the heart and tangled in the very fibres of an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“He was a mess of scars like the sky was a mess of stars. (...) For that was what scars were, weren’t they? A remembrance of moments dark.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame