Donika

“...to be the child her parents could count on, to be the one they were proud of. Any hurt he caused, any disappointment he brought, it only amplified her place in their parents life and their love for her.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“How were they to know the moments that would define them?
It will affect his personality for his whole life, someone is saying to her, and whose fault will it be then?
Mine, a voice replies, and the voice is hers.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“He had left the path. His parents had given him a map, and directions, and he had abandoned it all. Now his heart was so ink-dark he could be lost and not know it, and not care, and never know how to find his way back.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“Needing approval is a female cultural disease, and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road