Maria Shafiq

“Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world.”
― Faraaz Kazi, The Other Side

“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But… The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now," but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.”
― John Green

“We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to
Kneel! The grave yards of the Seven Kinfdoms are full of brave men who had never learned that lesson.

Cat.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones