It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

— Adi Alsaid

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.

— Adi Alsaid

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

— Adi Alsaid

Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it’s a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you’re walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you’re at your grandmother’s funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it’s gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.

— Adi Alsaid

People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.

— Adi Alsaid

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

— Adi Alsaid

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.

— Adi Alsaid

The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.

— Adi Alsaid

The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there.

— Adi Alsaid

To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.

— Adi Alsaid