Sanah

“Don't set your husband up on a pedestal and then cry when you find that he is only an ordinary man, after all.”
― Blanche Ebbutt, Don'ts for Wives

“You may ask me, as others have done before, whether it was kindness or cruelty to allow them to meet, so soon before his departure, with so little time to discover each other. Whether the pangs of loss do not invalidate the bliss of love. Especially where war is concerned, and Death runs rampant with his bloody scythe. You may say that it was wicked of me to allow James to find Hazel, and Hazel, James, if three days were all they would have. I don’t call it cruelty. I do not apologize.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“Would that we all knew the cracked terrain of each other’s broken hearts. Perhaps then, we would not be so cruel to those who walk this lonely world with us.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm