Ahmad

“Love can’t cure a mental illness.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“It’s the same as Scots English,” she explained. “It’s not your tongue, it was forced on you, and like your whisky you’ve blended it into something that’s your own. Anyone who hears a Scotsman speak recognizes the sound. We’ve made this language that was imposed on us ours too. When I speak, West Africa is on my tongue, Taino is on my tongue. Castilians have their Spanish, and we have our own.”
― Adriana Herrera, A Caribbean Heiress in Paris: A Novel

“قَالَ الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى: " وَهَذَا شَّكٌّ وَقَعَ مِنْ سُهَيْلِ بْنِ أَبِي صَالِحٍ فِي بِضْعٍ وَسِتِّينَ أَوْ فِي بِضْعٍ وَسَبْعِينَ، وَسُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ بِلَالٍ قَالَ: بِضْعٌ وَسِتُّونَ لَمْ يَشُكَّ فِيهِ وَرِوَايَتُهُ أَصَحُّ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالْحَدِيثِ”
― أبو بكر البيهقي, ‫شعب الإيمان‬

“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantly: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale