Nurul Afiah

“When we miss a plane, lose a job, or find ourselves unable to marry the person we want, have we ever stopped to consider the possibility that it may have been for our own good? Allah tells us in the Qur’an: “…But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not.” (Qur’an, 2:216)”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

“A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.”
― Natasha Trethewey, Thrall

“You can get there from here, though there's no going home.
Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.

"Theories of Time and Space”
― Natasha Trethewey

“what knowledge haunts each body, what history, what phantom ache?”
― Natasha Trethewey, Thrall