Hadia

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“Laughing, he said, “Cancer or Islam—which is the greater affliction?”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

“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

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