Aamina Muhsin

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red