Hamnah

“Of course I loved you . . . and I knew that it would happen all over again . . . that where I loved, I would cause irreparable damage. I am no fit person to love . . . I have never loved without causing harm.
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2 Books Bundle Collection

“Never," said he, as he ground his teeth, "never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!" (And he shook me with the force of his hold.) "I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage —with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am neither the magician, nor the show.
I'm the in between - everyone is captivated,
but no one comes too close.”
― Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman

“My strength was taught and lived. I am once in a lifetime woman who is compassionate, fierce, and independent. I have built myself from pieces over and over again. I wear pain like smiles because I have hidden my weakness with God.”
― Rafia Munir