“but how could you live and have no story to tell?”- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Izumi Shikibu, from a diary entry featured in Japanese Poetic Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu

Nothing equals the reassurance of knowing that God is with you

Sinéad O'Connor, from her book titled "Rememberings," originally published in June 2021

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

Mary Shelley, from her novel titled "Frankenstein," originally published in 1818

Franz Kafka, 1912

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

orange trees

𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫 𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔢 𝔡𝔞𝔱𝔢

"O Allah, make my religion easy for me by virtue of which my affairs are protected. Set right for me the affairs of the world wherein is my living. Decree the Hereafter to be good for me which is my resort to which I have to return. And make my life prone to perform all types of good, and make death a (source of) comfort for me from every evil."

“O Allah, when weariness weighs upon me, grant me Your strength. When I am lost, illuminate my path. When I feel alone, be my closest Companion.”