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21 " Here's one thing I CAN figure out and that's how much I don't know. How I don't know what you went through at school. With your teacher. I don't know about the extent of the Islamophobia you've faced. I don't know what it feel like to be you. But here's another thing: I DO want to know. "
― S.K. Ali , Love From A to Z
22 " Imagine if I transformed this room into the place where someone would want to escape to? "
23 " Because the moment you’re feeling secure, someone hates on you. "
24 " Exhibit A TO Z: The root of everything that has gone wrong in my life. Like falling for people without thinking things through. "
25 " I just wanted the right mix of being with someone I connected to, who cared, but also let me be. "
26 " The clearest feeling I remember is this: the way that it felt like the space between us folded and folded, and kept folding until the distance shrank, until we made sense to each other. "
27 " There was a reason love was a round sounding word. It completed you and then some, like treading a circular path, the way it was immemorial. Whole. But also... infinite. It went on and on as long as you went on and on, to meet it, keep it, treasure it. And I would. "
28 " Me not caring, nobody caring that I was crying. Nobody caring that I wasn’t going to be okay. "
29 " You need to have a way to take care of yourself. A way to recharge. Otherwise the world will get you down so fast, you won’t be able to hold your head up. I learned this the hard way. "
30 " This way of noticing that even during the suckiest moments in life there was something marvelous to be seen, heard, touched. Or just a tiny awe felt in the heart. "
31 " She couldn’t have been the right one for me. "
32 " Even though we were going to be continents apart in two days, we knew we weren’t going to be apart. "
33 " I wasn’t part of any Hogwarts houses, because there wasn’t a house for people who’d rather tuck away, overwhelmed with fear. "
34 " Then I got to thinking: Was there any use? Of just hanging around with her? When it wouldn’t come to anything? "
35 " So she’s being me?” “In a fun way. She’s good at improv. "