Cindy

“Saeed was certain he was in love. Nadia was not certain what exactly she was feeling, but she was certain it had force.”
― Mohsin Hamid

“In my teens and early twenties, I often went clothes shopping with my mother and I could always see her dismay at where I am forced to shop. I could see that she wished her daughter had a different body. I could see her humiliation and frustration. ... I harbored no small amount of frustration, or anger, for her words, for her disappointment in me, for my inability to be a good daughter, for one more thing I couldn't have – the simple pleasure of having fun while shopping with my mother.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can’t help it. We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body