Mariam

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn’t know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“Science is not a matter of belief. Science does not care whether you believe in it or not. Science will continue to do what science will do, free from morality, free from ethical concerns, and most of all, free from the petty worry that it will not be believed. Belief has shaped the history of human accomplishment—we believe we can, and so we do—but belief has never changed the natural world. The mountain does not vanish because we believe it should. The unicorn does not appear because we believe it will.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself.”
― Ray Bradbury