Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

by Suleika Jaouad

“Interesting people don’t talk about gossip or idle events, they talk about ideas,”

still couldn’t make sense of why some people suffered and others did not, why some lives were heaped in misfortune while others were spared.

Untamed fear consumes you, becomes you, until what you are most afraid of turns alive.

Healing is figuring out how to coexist with the pain that will always live inside of you, without pretending it isn’t there or allowing it to hijack your day.

You can’t guarantee that people won’t hurt or betray you—they will, be it a breakup or something as big and blinding as death. But evading heartbreak is how we miss our people, our purpose.

“When you’re abused by someone you trust, it confuses you. When you stay confused, you start to hate yourself.”