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1 " How queer it was for two lovers to suddenly turn into strangers? "
― Diyar Harraz , One Minute to Midnight
2 " We can get through this. You just have to believe in that because we don’t know if a miracle is about to come our way.”- Afia "
3 " She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured. "
4 " There were so many things we left unsaid. Depending on how you look at it, whether you think it was worth saying it out loud, or better kept inside. "
5 " There was this saying that kept on haunting her mind – tears make you seem weak. And she wasn’t weak. It was just that sometimes when she was all alone, it had made everything seemed so much real and convincing. "
6 " Sometimes, things didn't always happen as we wanted them to. "
7 " He’d managed to take hold of her being, her poise and twisted it that it’d mutilated so bad. Even she had forgotten how it had felt to be sane. "
8 " Horror was written all over his face as he began to understand that that child of his wasn’t stupid, or immune to what he had done in the past. It had greatly affected her. "
9 " The scar she'd left her was so deep that it may take a thousand million years to heal. She couldn't pretend like nothing had happened. She couldn't shut her feelings, like how you shut a window blind; once you did it, all lights from the outside would be swept away from the room. It had taken her years to acknowledge the fact that she was unwanted; a subject of shame for her mother to sink in. And for sure, it would take her more than nine years to forget it all, in one go. "
10 " To lose someone after you’ve loved them was tougher than losing them when you’ve never even met them. "
11 " I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't. "
12 " It was too easy to lie, when you’d practised it a few times. It was hard the first time, but once it flow from your tongue like the perfect summer breeze, and everybody seemed to believe in it, it became mundane. You’d just have to program it first, copy and paste the same old sentences all over again. "
13 " What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost. "
14 " A few years ago, she thought someone had finally come to love her and accepted her unconditionally, but she was wrong. You couldn’t really define love with money. It was more than that. "
15 " You know, when you talked about good days and bad days, do you think right now counts as the good days?”“It depends. How do you feel right now?”Rania closed her eyes when she said, “I feel strange. I haven’t felt like this for a long time.”Zaheed took a deep breath. “How so?”She shrugged. “Perhaps, it’s because I’m in a whole new place, where I haven’t set my foot before; the air smelt different and I’m talking to a stranger. It made me feel like I’ve just had all my memories erased and replaced with new ones. "
16 " I didn’t ask for any of this, dad. I didn’t ask to be so unfortunate in everything I do. I didn’t ask to be born like this, and I most certainly didn’t ask to be like how everybody was calling me, a child who brought disgrace.” - Sasha "
17 " When you found yourself carrying another life inside you, and you were only a child yourself, you’d automatically forget all about the grunts and pains of labour. What had truly conquered your whole thoughts then were the shock, shame and panic. "
18 " .....the only sound was of the crickets, and the glittering speckled of stars on the night sky as witness of her biggest mistake, the night when it changed her life forever. "
19 " But, when he saw that glint of happiness in his father’s eyes in the middle of his sentence, he decided that he wanted it to stay that way. "
20 " That's the thing with you people. You think you could love someone one second and hate them the next. Well, you can't. "