Amima Khalid

“I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history.

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.”
― Emily Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“that to lose one’s intellect was akin to letting seeds wither and die in the dark ground”
― Evie Gaughan, The Story Collector