Sara Mohamed Ali

“لا توجد فضيلة كاملة ولا عربدة كاملة.”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, قمر على سمرقند

“A writer should never have the audacity to write about themselves unless they’re willing to separate every layer of protection between the author’s soul and their book. The words should come directly from the center of the gut, tearing through flesh and bone as they break free. Ugly and honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying, but completely exposed.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The good thing about sins is they don’t have to be atoned for immediately,”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me—with the entirety of his past—without also imagining the future.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity