Galib

“Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye.” But the proverb goes on to say: “Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“Sister - she was my friend, the first person I shared a secret with.

Brother - he was my armour, the first person who protected me.

Father - he was my listener, the first person I ever cried with.

Mother - she was my "Home", the first place I ever lived.”
― Kamil Khalil Alvi

“You’re never failing, you’re learning. Learning how to manage the sea and how to manage yourself. Everything you did today, right or wrong, was experience. Experience! Can’t beat it. And you’ll learn from it, just you wait.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Mama-when she was younger-said a woman on the run ought to keep a lookout over her shoulder. She also said a girl shouldn't get so big for her pants that she outgrew her history. But some ancestral memories deserved to be abandoned.”
― Ann Hite, Going To The Water