Maryam Khan

Yousafzai Pathan From Lahore, Pakistan.

[the-book-diaries]

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

[mohitmarwah]

“Zara Sa Jhooth Hee Kehdo Mere Bin Adhoore Ho,

Tumhara Kya Bigadta Hai Zara Si Baat Kehne Mein”

- Parveen Shakir

[the-book-diaries]

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Your skin’s pages; your heart’s ink, your brain’s Word Power,”

— Jackie Kay, from Bantam: Poems (2017); “Silver Moon,”

[books-n-quotes]

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”

— Lynda Barry, What It Is

[books-n-quotes]

“It’s better this way. A little lonelier but better.”

— Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Falling in love is a lovely ecstatic thing, and I think I might very well let myself do that this spring.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. February 1953

[books-n-quotes]

“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry on, Warrior

[noorshirazie]

“i refuse to surrender this pain. it is the only way to remember you.”

— Noor Shirazie

[komal01]

Daur tha ek - guzar gaya. Nasha tha ek - utar gaya.

Ab woh mukaam hai jahan apni arzoo bhi nahi, aur teri talaash bhi nahi.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“My soul is all but out of me—”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “God’s World,”

[julaibib]

فَإِذَا عَزَمْتَ فَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ

Then, when you have made a decision, put your trust in Allah,

—  Surah Ali ‘Imran [3:159]

[luthienne]

Etel Adnan, from The Spring Flowers Own

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“​It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew.”

Nella Larsen, from “Passing,”

[julaibib]

اللّٰهُمَّ لَكَ الْحَمْدُ كَالَّذِيْ تَقُوْلُ وَخَيْرًا مِّمَّا نَقُوْلُ 

O Allah, praise belongs to You just as You say, and better than how we say it.

[theonlykayaa]

“If someone keeps reminding you of Allah, then you know that their love for you is true.”

—

[julaibib]

وَلِلَّهِ عَاقِبَةُ الْأُمُورِ

And to Allāh belongs the outcome of all matters.     

—  Qur'ān 22:41