Raoufa Ibrahim

“Sometimes you don’t get to choose your struggles—they choose you.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea

“Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.”
― David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“People used to die naturally. Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. There were invisible killers called “diseases” that broke the body down. Aging couldn’t be reversed, and there were accidents from which there was no return. Planes fell from the sky. Cars actually crashed. There was pain, misery, despair. It’s hard for most of us to imagine a world so unsafe, with dangers lurking in every unseen, unplanned corner.  All of that is behind us now, and yet a simple truth remains: People have to die. It”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe