Iman Ibrahim

“Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“I love you past the sun and the moon and the stars,” she’d always say to me when I was little. But I just want her to love me here. Now. On Earth.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“Your presence is made of fleeting moments that may lack truth." "Not everything is fleeting. Some feelings are profound.”
― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

“I think, ultimately, other people aren’t real to us until they’re suffering or gone. That’s when the imagination begins to work, trying to sort things out, trying to get them right, to understand them.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence