19 Quotes by Mina Rehman

I loved the [postman]! He always brought me gifts. Granted, I ordered them AND paid for them, but still. It was like the guy was my very own Santa, bringing me whatever I wanted, without a Christmas restriction.

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.

You are under no obligation to look pretty, least of all someone else’s definition of pretty.

We’re just two out of billions of people, on a rock orbiting a ball of fire, alive at a point in time that allows us to witness humanity make the biggest, most bewildering discoveries. Two people who could have been anywhere in the world, separated by time, space, circumstances. Yet after all we’ve been through, all that’s happened to us, here we are, now. Sharing this moment together. We’re not insignificant. We’re miracles.

You're a diamond. Never sell yourself as coal.

The more attention you deprive something of, the more it ends up needing.

Blaming her meant that she was at fault, that she must have done something for this to happen to her. And so it could never happen to their innocent, sweet, obedient daughters.

She can’t move forward or backward. She is stuck in time. A constant.

For as long as I can remember, you’ve been my lifeline. Every possible future I thought up, you were always in it. Funny how I always imagined happily-ever-afters as if we were living in a fairy tale.