Fatima Mami

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“Is the heart always failing itself or by nature unfaithful?

I had to restrain myself from writing to her too often, especially because she rarely wrote back or responded with the speed and in the manner I had allowed myself to expect. Some people manage to escape the obligation a sincere letter places on them.”
― Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance

“Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well