“Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

“Allah will not give mercy to anyone, except those who give mercy to other creatures.”

“You know those nights where the day has unfolded in such a way that now, in the night, you can feel all the gaps in your body and you can see all the reasons you’re not who you wish you were - you know those nights where the only sound is of you drinking and the people outside who have each other to drink with - those nights when you’re unable to think or be or do because of the paralyzing loneliness - it feels like a hundred of those nights - stitched together and squared - and they come to me in a blush.”

“All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.”