Hadia

“Why do you lie so much? And about the weirdest little things?", my mother always asked me. "I don’t know", I always said. But I did know. It was very simple. Because it was a better story.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“who knew everything about her rights and nothing about the fragility of her place in the world.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

“Why sociology?’ he said. He shouldn’t have opened the wine – it would only make Terry angrier. There was never anything to be gained from pettiness.
‘I wanted to understand why the world is so unfair.’
‘Shouldn’t your God give you those answers?’ he said, surprised by the slight teasing of his own tone.
‘Our God did, in a roundabout way.’
‘How’s that?’ he said. She was pretty when her face was at rest, wiped clean of the encroachment of anxiety.
‘For starters, He created Marx.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire