Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge. - Elif Şafak

إني أشفق على الأحمق الذي يظن أنّ حدود عقله البشري هي حدود الله عز وجل،إني أشفق على الجاهل الذي يعتقد بأنه يستطيع أن يساوم الله ويسوي حساباته وديونه معه. هل يظن هؤلاء الله بقالاً يزن حسناتنا وذنوبنا في ميزانين منفصلين؟ هل يظنون أنه يسجل ذنوبنا في دفتر حساباته بدقةٍ حتى نسدد له ما علينا ذات يوم؟ أهذه هي فكرتهم عن الوحدانية؟ إن إلهي ليس بقالاً ولا محاسبًا بل إنه إله عظيم...إله حيّ!

Sometimes family trauma skips a generation altogether and redoubles its hold on the following one. You may encounter grandchildren who silently shoulder the hurts and sufferings of their grandparents.

As far as she was concerned, the apocalypse was not the worst thing that could happen. The possibility of an immediate and wholesale decimation of civilization was not half as frightening as the simple realization that our individual passing had no impact on the order of things, and life would go on just the same with or without us. Now that, she had always thought, was terrifying.