Yasmin Khan

“Love is respect,
recognition and honour
given without expectation.”
― Theodore Volgoff, The Backpack

“Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Maktub

“She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.

The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett