nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back

It says in the Qur’an that the taking of a single life destroys a universe, and there was the evidence in front of me - twenty seven hundred universes shattered in a few moments. Universes of family, of children, of friends.

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness (...)