Hamzah Shafiq

“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth

“She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Selected Short Stories