Hadia

“The poets brace themselves for imminent, overeducated poverty.”
― 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

“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

“Jesus watches from the wall,
But his face is cold as stone,
And if he loves me
As she tells me
Why do I feel so all alone?”
― Stephen King, Carrie