" Too many times we're stuck trying to revive the dead when we can't even rouse the living." The woman added a paperboard coffee sleeve around Lexi's cup. "I think if we spent as much time worrying about the life prior to the afterlife, we would likely have no time to contemplate the latter. Heaven and Hell are right here, inside of us. We take them with us wherever we go."

"That's pretty good." Lexi took a sip of the coffee, desperate for caffeine. "What are your views on relationships?"

Sahar smiled. "Don't settle until you find the one who makes you want to say ya'aburnee."

"What?"

"It's Arabic for 'you bury me.' The hope that the person you love will outlive you so that you will be spared the pain of living without them. "

― Angela Panayotopulos , The Wake Up