Diala AlAbed

“He’s a monster,” I said. “Maybe I’m a monster to pity him. But I can’t leave him.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“I didn’t want to enjoy the way the wind spun around me and pulled at my dress. It soothed me and I didn’t want to be soothed.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a mutation. To my great misfortune, I was once mistaken for an angel. To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. But I knew the truth—deep down, I always did.
I was just a girl.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago.”
― Cristin Terrill, All Our Yesterdays