Tabassum Sheikh

“Beware how you give your heart.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“To me, my husband was my son’s murderer. He was also my daughter’s molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai’s destroyer, Amma Sain’s tormentor, Ma’s humbler and the people’s exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations