Noor

“It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream"
"I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up"
"Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-"
"Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages."
"You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“I will give no one the satisfaction of my death.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me