Madiha

“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
― Sojourner Truth

“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
― Sojourner Truth

“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!”
― Eugene O'Neill

“Why didn’t you stay?’ she has whispered against the unyielding stone. Why didn’t you stay? She pressed the berry against her lips. Why didn’t I ask you just one more time to stay.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows