I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.

— Noorilhuda

I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. Our time will come just as his did. And no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and now he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams

— Noorilhuda

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

— Noorilhuda

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.

— Noorilhuda

Life is, you know, but an idea. You can fill it up with anything really and deceive yourself into believing that is what you need. You can be happy, sad, benevolent, crafty, unpleasant. That man filled it up with nastiness, and it destroyed him in the end. I wonder what could have made him that way. Cruelty on the part of others or cruelty in his heart?" - Lady Cavendish

— Noorilhuda

Love is ease.

— Noorilhuda

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams

— Noorilhuda

One is only as good as one is useful.

— Noorilhuda

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat..... The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

— Noorilhuda

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

— Noorilhuda