Farah Al Tabbaa

“Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
― William Allingham

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder