Hamzah Shafiq

“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

“Justice is red.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“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

“Leave it to a writer's mind to add two and two together and come up with 69.”
― Stjepan Šejić, Sunstone, Vol. 4