Aadil Khan

“Your fiction and nonfiction—they walk you around the world like your two legs.”
― Arundhati Roy, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

“There is nothing wrong with feeling the energies of fear, jealousy, or attraction. It’s not your fault that such energies exist. All the attractions, repulsions, thoughts, and feelings don’t make any difference. They don’t make you pure or impure. They are not you. You are the one who’s watching, and that one is pure consciousness. Don’t think you’d be free if you just didn’t have these kinds of feelings. It’s not true. If you can be free even though you’re having these kinds of feelings, then you’re really free—because there will always be something.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“Zwarib, the Arabic word for it—alleyways and dead ends in speech, syntactical circles before getting to the point. Linguistic terrorism, Naj says.”
― Hala Alyan, The Arsonists' City

“Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions