Samia Ahmed

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

“No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.”
― Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang

“Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.”
― Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum