To all those who appreciate the human soul.

To all those who believe that life is worth living.

I dedicate this simple book.

Yours,

Maha Mansour

Jumana Samara

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

– H.Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

– André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.

– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

– Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.

– Veronica Roth, Divergent

– Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

– Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Be yourself and people will like you.”

—Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

—The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

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