umaiza

“I looked up then, searched the sky. When I found the moon, I found God, when I saw the stars, I saw God, when I let myself be inhaled by the vast, expanding universe, I understood God the way Seneca once did– God is everything one sees and everything one does not see.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight: A YA Novel of Muslim American Identity, Grief, and Hope in Post-9/11 America

“For she had learned long ago that when a home was not found it was forged. Indeed it could be fashioned even from nothing”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“Maybe it was enough, i thought, that i knew someone like him existed in this world. Maybe it was enough that our lives had merged and diverged and left us both transformed. Maybe it was enough to have learned that i love was the unexpected weapon, that it was the knife i'd needed to cut through the Kevlar i wore every day.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“My body is not unlike the moon, cratered so thoroughly by brutality it’s hard to imagine it untouched by violence.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me