Zeba Shahnaz > Quotes

“This dance - this proposition - it's simply too overwhelming to be real. An intoxicating fantasy. I feel as drunk on the thrill of his attentions as he is on wine. But his hand feels like my only tether to the world as I spin and twirl like a storm about its eye. And underneath it all, he looks at me as if he doesn't want to stop.
To my great confusion, I find myself feeling the same.”
― Zeba Shahnaz, Midnight Strikes

“Here is the truth: between the first and last bells of midnight, the world will fall apart.”
― Zeba Shahnaz, Midnight Strikes

“The words die out in the back of my throat. Different wones leap up to take their place, impossible ones, but I choke them down before I can say them, before they are immortalized on my tongue, before I doom myself to live with their new and raw and terrible truth. He opens his mouth, but ash coats his lips, and long before we manage to die, we are torn asunder.”
― Zeba Shahnaz, Midnight Strikes

“Vamos, pues – me dice suave como la hoja de una espada–. Veámosles arder.”
― Zeba Shahnaz, Midnight Strikes