“We were like two stars converging around the same axis, but with paths that missed each other by a fraction of infinity.” — Leylah Attar Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I feel like a tree exposed to the elements, my roots clinging to the soil, my branches flirting with heaven.” — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“My grandma used to say that people born on the same day are two halves of the same soul” — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“But sitting here before Troy Heathgate now, I'm teetering on a knife's edge between honor and disgrace.” — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“My heart thunders like the hooves of a thousand wild horses.” — Leylah Attar Hooves Copy Share Image
“Want some of this?” He held out his burrito: chargrilled beef with cumin, garlic and lime juice.” — Leylah Attar Food Copy Share Image
“We all die, Shayda.” He turns and looks at me. “It’s about how we choose to get there.” — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“This is what he does to me. Open up the windows of my soul and pushes me out.” — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“So what's it like? To have it all? Like flying. Soaring. Until you come across the one thing you'd give it all… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“My greatest loss had led to my greatest love. Hearts were broken, and hearts were healed. Lives were lost, and lives were… — Leylah Attar Death Copy Share Image
“When the world has always taken from you, when it’s constantly tilted and shifted under your feet, it’s hard to attach permanence… — Leylah Attar Permanence Copy Share Image
“This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls—like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling,… — Leylah Attar Artist Copy Share Image
“Vengeance only begets more vengeance, more chaos, more darkness. Vengeance abducts us and imprisons us and mutilates us, and we suffer and… — Leylah Attar Vengeance Copy Share Image
“Because I'm scared. Because each time I see him, it's a little more overwhelming than before. Because I'm afraid it'll build up… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to hide anymore. When love looks at you, when it truly pins you down and stares into your soul,… — Leylah Attar Invincible Copy Share Image
“I would have stayed.” Her words were muffled against my shirt. “If you’d asked, I would have stayed.” My heart swelled with… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“How about Papas Locas? Crazy potatoes?” he asked. The vendor was roasting large potatoes in foil, mashing them with butter and fresh… — Leylah Attar Food Copy Share Image
“had always thought of home as a place, where you put down your roots, unpack your collection of mugs with snarky quotes,… — Leylah Attar Home Copy Share Image
“Because when we love, we carry it on the inside, and we can turn on its light even in our darkest moments.… — Leylah Attar Deeper love Copy Share Image
“All of my wild, crazy exuberance fit perfectly in the quiet crevices of her dreams. It was as if all my life,… — Leylah Attar Broken wings Copy Share Image
“Men who pick you up when they hug you,” said one of the girls. I didn’t know which of them it was,… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“We have an infinite capacity to love, but when you wrap up your love and give it to someone, they expect all… — Leylah Attar Capacity to love Copy Share Image
“Growing old isn’t for sissies,” she said softly. “You lose the people you love. Over and over again. Some get taken away… — Leylah Attar Growing old Copy Share Image
“I tried to imagine what it would feel like, grieving for someone in a place where things kept growing, where new life… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes heroes were found between the pages of a book, and sometimes they stood on a hill, their checkered togas fluttering in… — Leylah Attar Books Copy Share Image
“This is what it looks like when you wander somewhere between the sand and stardust, and meet a piece of yourself in… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“All this time I’ve been searching for her in the wrong places—in the rain, and in thunder, and lightning. And all this… — Leylah Attar Rainbow Copy Share Image
