Ambreen Misbah

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven

“I want to live so densely. lush. and slow in the next few years, that a year becomes ten years, and my past becomes only a page in the book of my life.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you”
― Nayyirah Waheed