caro | sanjariti

“You are lucky enough to love someone who loves you back. He is alive and breathing and in the same vicinity as you. By the skies, do something about it. For however long you have. For whatever time you get. Because if you don’t, I swear that you’ll regret it for all your years”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“It should have been him dancing with you”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Emifal Firdaant,' I say to him.
'You've said that before. What does it mean?'
I cannot quite look at him when I say it. 'May death claim me first.'
'Ah, no, my love.' He gathers me close. 'You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.'
With that, he closes his eyes, but I cannot sleep. I stare up at the peak of the tent and listen to the rain drum down on the canvas. Emifal Firdaant, I beg the skies. Emifal Firdaant.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm