Ahmed

“But the moments the seconds the minutes the hours the days and years become one big mistake, one extraordinary opportunity slipped right through our fingers because we couldn't decide, we couldn't understand, we needed more time, we didn't know what to do.
We don't even know what we have done.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes’
“That’s God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren’t lost. I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“No matter what we survivors like to tell ourselves about the afterlife, when someone dies, everything is over.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“I want to laugh one of those strange, high-pitched, delusional laughs that signals the end of a person's sanity. Because this world, I think, has a terrible, terrible sense of humor. It always seems to be laughing at me. at my expense. making my life entirely more complicated all the time. Ruining all of my best-laid plans by making every choice so difficult. Making everything so confusing.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me