Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know Quotes

“There are literally centuries of women who never got to tell their stories. An invisible hand squeezes my heart for the nameless women history brushed aside.”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“It must be a strange feeling to love a child and all the while be raising them to leave you.”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“In the end, we all become stories.”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“I wonder what things would've been like if we'd really met accidentally or if he'd emailed me and asked me to coffee. I think about our first kiss in his library and how it tasted like books and Orangina. And how things were good and then chaos. And how lies and truth comingle in all our lives. I think about the flat circle and how at some point in that never-ending loop, our paths crossed, maybe in a different way, and we found Leila and we found each other and we found the truth.”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“How do human beings not explode from too many feelings?”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“Does time pass achingly as it does on earth, or is there no time at all?”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

“Stories are funny things. Even the mere idea of fiction. Facts exist. But I see now that facts are different than truth. Facts are supposed to be indisputable, unbending (at least until science tells us we were wrong about everything), but even the true stories of who we think ourselves to be are kind of fiction we create.”
― Samira Ahmed, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know