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Shahida Arabi

800 Quotes
Bestselling Author. Content Writer for Thought Catalog. Quotes about empowerment, healing, victory.
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800 quotes curated by Shahida Arabi:

“You will ask her to bow and she will climb.
You will ask her to crawl and she will rise.
You will ask her to die and she will be reborn.
You will bury her and she will grow.”
— Shahida Arabi, For The Girls Who Do Not Fear Wolves
Tagged: wolves, Poetry, Poems, Poetry Quotes, Rising Again, Resurrection, Resilience, Women Who Defeat Wolves
“Follow me down to the river
Drink while the water is clean
Follow me down to the river tonight
I'll be down here on my knees”
— The Pretty Reckless, Follow Me Down
Tagged: Lyrics, Song Lyrics
“For the ways that I hurt, when I'm hiking up my skirt.
I am sitting on a throne while they're buried in the dirt.”
— The Pretty Reckless, Going To Hell
Tagged: Hell, Confession, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, No Rest for the Wicked, The Seven Deadly Sins, Lust
“I got caught for what I did but took it all in style.
Laid to rest all my confessions I gave way back when.
Now I'm versed in so much worse,
So I am back again”
— The Pretty Reckless, Going To Hell
Tagged: Hell, Confession, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, No Rest for the Wicked
“Taste me, drink my soul
Show me all the things that I shouldn't know
When there's a blue moon on the rise”
— The Pretty Reckless, Make Me Wanna Die
Tagged: Your Dark Side, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Lyric Quotes, teach me, Vampires
“Never was a girl with a wicked mind
But everything looks better when the sun goes down”
— The Pretty Reckless, Make Me Wanna Die
Tagged: Wicked Mind, Your Dark Side, Lyrics, Song Lyrics, Lyric Quotes
“I won't let you turn me into the woman who says, 'Pick me, not her.'”
— Yvonne Phillips, Pretty Little Liars, Season 6: Hush, Hush, Sweet Liars
Tagged: No Competition, A Woman's Worth, Self-Worth, Confidence, Self-Love, triangulation, Love Triangles
“I'm not going to ask you how you are. When people say that, they really don't want an honest answer, do they? They just ask so you'll say "fine," and they don't have to deal with you anymore.”
— Carla Grunwuld, Pretty Little Liars, Season 5: How the 'A' Stole Christmas
Tagged: small talk, Your Real Feelings
“How would you like me to act? You want me to cry my eyes out? Bang my fists on the wall? She's gone. That's it. People leave. People die. It's the only sure thing there is in this world.”
— Mike Montgomery, Pretty Little Liars, Season 5: How the 'A' Stole Christmas
Tagged: Death & Life, Grieving, How to Grieve, The Only Thing That's Certain, Mourning
“Ezra: First, we need to deal with that problem in your trunk.

Aria: How?

Ezra: I have a master's degree in American literature. There's nothing I can't handle.”
— Ezra Fitz, Pretty Little Liars, Season 7: Farewell My Lovely
Tagged: Dead Bodies In The Car, English Literature Majors Can Handle Anything