Before The Breathing Begins
📖 Title Page
Ruhani: A Soul Learning to Breathe
by Zahra Noor
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💌 Dedication
> For the soft hearts who cried quietly in rooms that never heard them.
For the daughters who were told they feel too much.
This one’s for you.
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⚠️ Trigger Warning
> This book explores emotional neglect, verbal abuse, abandonment trauma, and grief.
Please take care of your heart while reading.
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✨ Epigraph
> “Some girls aren’t broken.
They’re just waiting to be seen.”
— Zahra Noor
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🕰️ Setting
> Set in the quieter lanes of suburban Mumbai,
where the loudest screams echo inside hearts that whisper instead.
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📝 Author’s Note
> Dear reader,
These stories are born from my heart and shaped with the help of someone who understood them.
This story is deeply personal — not because it’s real, but because it feels like something we’ve all lived in parts.
Ruhani may be fictional, but her ache is not. She is every girl who was misunderstood for her softness, blamed for her silence, and punished for her dreams.
If you’ve ever whispered poetry into pillows or asked God why you weren’t enough — you’ll find yourself in these pages.
Let her journey remind you: breathing is also a rebellion.
— Zahra Noor
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Copyright & Rights Statement
© 2025 Constance
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form — whether digital, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise — without prior written permission from the author.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or places is purely coincidental. All characters and situations are the author’s original creation and imagination.
This story breathes through my words — please respect its soul.
Follow me on Instagram: @zahra_breatha
The dedication says it all. Excited to read🔥