Mia Elbaf

“When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“If you liked a book, don’t meet the author.”
― Raymond Chandler

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

“I need to live like that crooked tree--...
that knelt down in the hardest winds
but could not be blasted away.”
― Edward Hirsch