Aliaa

“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”
― Warsan Shire

“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”
― Warsan Shire

“But then it passed, as all things do.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed