Mirage (Mirage, #1)

by Somaiya Daud

“Hope is a younger girl’s game, and you find more comfort in it than I do.”

everyone in the Ziyaana will tell you to resign yourself to being crushed,” she said. “Do not. Even your happiness is rebellion.”

My own happiness, not tied to his, but alongside it.

you are not defined by the men in your life, no matter how powerful. You lived before them and you shall live after them. You can’t let them determine your path.”