"What are men to rocks and mountains?"

—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers."

—John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

"I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks."

—R.J. Palacio, Wonder

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'"

—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"A sound of cornered animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance, that if you ever trailed a coon or cougar or lynx is like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything, but himself and his dying."

—Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared."

—Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

—J. D. Salinger, "A Girl I Knew"

"You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you."

—Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

"I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again..."

— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

—W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One"

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

—Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."

—W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Hello, I am Ayisha and I just told the story of my life :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I heard you can meet people from all around the world here-
-That is what you do when you want to meet people from all around the world :)

Interests

• movies
• reading
• music
• travel
• writing poetry
• reading and writing

Music, Movies, and Books

My music taste is influenced by my mood and environment and currently the artists I am listening to include:
Zayn
Infinite (full disclosure, Myun Oppa is my bias <3 )
Westlife
Zendaya
Linkin Park
Justin Bieber
Adele
Ed Sheeran
Benny Bennasi
Taylor Swift
Tatiana Manaois
Selena Gomez
The Chainsmokers
Abu Sadick

Favorite Movies:
Me Before You
Moana -really duh
The Fault in Our Stars
The Prince and the Princess
Another Cinderella Story
Shrek
-um I like a lot of romcoms, horror and cartoons (I feel like I just described the stuff my life is made of :D)

Favorite TV Shows
The Big Bang Theory
The Flash
Doctor Who
KejetiaVrsMakola
Tormenta en El Paraiso
-too many Disney shows
-too many nickelodeon shows
-too many Korean dramas (if you are a netizen like I am a netizen, we should talk)

Favorite Books
The Guarded Tablet
Sahih-Bukhari
Little Women
Gone With the Wind
Anne of Green Gables
Pharaoh's Daughter
The Fault in Our Stars (hello? Lol)
A Natural History of the Senses
Queen Noor
Destiny of a Horse Boy
-um oke listing writers might make this list a lot less longer so:
Jane Austen
The Bronte Sisters
Enid Blyton
Ann M. Martin (she is the reason I love babysitting and ultimately children I think)
Shakespeare
Dickens
Poe
Bram Stoker
Hemingway
Estelle Maskeme (she is new, well to the world but I've been following her work from the time she used to post on booksie and she is like wine, only getting better with age 😂)
Emily Dickinson
Naomi Shihab Nye
Thomas Chatterton
Francine Pascal
Sir Arthur
-oke, still too long, let's just find out in the conversation yeah?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have a laser beam pointed at this planet- I haven't used it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I will practice English with you if you want to learn :)

I would be grateful if you helped me with Arabic or French :)

I will be your friend till the end :)

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ghana