10 Quotes by Hanna Alkaf

Adults rarely like being told that they don’t have all the answers, or worse still, that the answers they do have are all the wrong ones.

When there is so much broken about the world we currently live in, one cracked person is easy enough to excuse or ignore.

You think you're better than us just because you're older than us? Because you're 'wiser' than us? All that means is that you're an insult to your old age, because nothing I've seen from you so far makes you seem very wise at all.

But why? Why not give them the same pain they give you? Measure for measure. An eye for an eye."I don't want anybody's eye."You know what I mean.Suraya was silent for a while as she thought about this. Then she sighed. "Because then, that makes me no better than them. That makes me a bully too.

If I’m going to wage battle with demons both on the street and in my own head, I’m going to do it with all of myself, and not weighed down by borrowed clothes and secondhand memories.

how very, very tired I am with this hidden battle for my own thoughts, the burden of counting, the work it takes to hide it.

I'm too tired to fight him off. Instead, I let him enfold me in a beguilingly soft, dark blanket of misery, and cry and cry and cry until my head is heavy and my throat is sore and my eyes swell so that the city lights blur and merge into a beautiful, chaotic mess.

The happy bubble we've incased ourselves in shimmers, then bursts altogether, and the air that comes rushing in is thick with tension.

The thing about a song is that, if you break it down, it's all chaos," I say. "Like, there's all these different notes, different instruments, different sounds. It's a mess. But you add a beat and a rhythm and somehow everything can come together and make something beautiful. I think that's what I'm trying to do. Find a rhythm for the mess in my head, so that it somehow... makes sense.