1
It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.Diyar Harraz
2
I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.Diyar Harraz
3
I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.Diyar Harraz
4
You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.Diyar Harraz
5
I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?Diyar Harraz
6
I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.Diyar Harraz