Diane

“But even so. The boy can't boil water or heat bread on the eye of the stove. Leaves the milk out of the fridge. Tries to cut an apple in the night and I wake up to blood spattered on the kitchen floor, seeds everywhere. There is all the evidence of a past tended by a woman's hands.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“he had given up gluten and diary and daughters.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“Grief comes in waves. Now it threatens to capsize him.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“If your lover lives in a building grand enough to have a servants' staircase, how long before she sends you down it?”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English