Salwa Al Neimi

“When she’s eight, you take her to bed to tell her a story. When she’s eighteen, you tell her a story to take her to bed. When she’s twenty-eight, you don’t need to tell her a story to take her to bed. When she’s thirty-eight, she tells you a story to take you to bed. When she’s forty-eight, she tells you a story to avoid having to go to bed. When she’s fifty-eight, you stay in bed to avoid her story. When she’s sixty-eight, if you take her to bed, then that’s the story. When she’s seventy-eight, what bed; what story? What devil of a man are you?”
― Salwa Al Neimi, The Proof of the Honey