Khadija Rupa Quotes Quotes

“And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“I didn’t want a story—a beginning. Not anymore. I have long ago stopped walking on a road where my dreams walk around. I change my destination a hundred times if I ever see an old wish of mine standing there in its real form. I don’t know them. I don’t want to. They too must not know me. They too must not recognise me as their owner.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“But I hope you don’t feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache.

Remember, you always will be.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words— Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“From all my dreams where you felt everlasting
to all my clothes your words used to wear,
to the old end, to the new beginning,
you have lost me everywhere.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“How could she be someone’s mistake?”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“In that silence, I dream to be.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“This is a girl you can’t keep. You aren’t allowed to.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful.”
― Khadija Rupa

“It’s a poem, of our love, that doesn’t rhyme. A story, never meant to have, a happy end.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Someday, even my existence would be felt.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“The way your curious eyes were chasing mine when I stood in front of you, I knew I had known these eyes before.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“If ever again, someone says to go to the market, where hearts are sold in exchange for melancholy souls, never would I go.

Never would I wait, if ever again someone says— not to.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“There is a sad end I used to live
even before I knew
this is how I was meant to begin.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Do you love me enough that I am allowed
to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places?”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“I threw myself so far in your depth that it took me a month to come out and notice I was actually sitting in my room. Nowhere else. Not with you.”
― Khadija Rupa, Unexpressed Feelings

“Is there a magic
Like the person who still smiles to others,


Even when their world
is falling apart?”
― Khadija Rupa

“There is not a single reason why you should give up.

If there are thorns, there are roses.
If there is a light outside,
a hole or a crack or a door, a window,
must be made inside.
If there is the smell of smoke in the air,
a house or maybe an entire village is just somewhere near.

There is not a single reason why you should give up.
But there are a thousand reasons why you must not.”
― Khadija Rupa