Khadijah Rehman

“As I paddled on, my heartbeat boomed like a dull motor in my ears. I am I am I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System

“If it were sufficient to love, things would be too easy. The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril