Anya Daftary

“What made it worse, it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it was Saturday night. I didn’t see hardly anybody on the street. Now and then you just saw a man and a girl crossing a street, with their arms around each other’s waists and all, or a bunch of hoodlumy-looking guys and their dates, all of them laughing like hyenas at something you could bet wasn’t funny. New York’s terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The trouble with my body was that I had to carry it around with me.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“I thought that if i let anyone in, they’d find out what was broken about me. And then not only would they know, i’d know too.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“As a nonbeliever, I knew I couldn’t replicate Akram’s ecstasy. As an English speaker without classical Arabic, I knew I’d lose the poetry of the original words. But a bit like the nun who, while drifting off to sleep, allows herself a few seconds of wondering about sex, I found that Akram’s description suggested the limitations of my own cozy secularism.”
― Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran