Sandra Tharwat

“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I'd actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“نستطيع أن نطهّر أجسامنا بالزهد والصيام،
لكن الحبّ وحده هو الذي يطهر قلوبنا !”
― إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love

“في كُلِ شئ أفعله أجيد خلق البدايات، لكن نهاياتي دائمًا ما تكون مُعلقة!”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي, أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي

“Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.”
― Francine Rivers, The Atonement Child