Aimee

“She wished she could be stronger, wished she could be one of those people who could listen to a sad song without bursting into tears, who could read something horrible in the news without feeling sick, who didn’t feel so deeply. But that wasn’t her.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“the world pressed shame into women like pillows into their faces.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“But what if I don't want to get married?' Deya had asked. 'Why does my entire life have to revolve around a man?”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“The devastating luxury of panic overtook me.
And it has never left.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo