Menna Walid

“We are synonyms but not the same.
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends
who’ve seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their
origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different,
and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other.
Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the
same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one
because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.
They are not the same.”
― tahreh mafi, unravel me

“He was trying to dazzle her. But dazzle was a lot like romance—fantastic
while it lasted, but it never lasted long enough.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“It is only in the desperate
seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke
our bodies were only mirrors, all along”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me