Ayza

“Why sociology?’ he said. He shouldn’t have opened the wine – it would only make Terry angrier. There was never anything to be gained from pettiness.
‘I wanted to understand why the world is so unfair.’
‘Shouldn’t your God give you those answers?’ he said, surprised by the slight teasing of his own tone.
‘Our God did, in a roundabout way.’
‘How’s that?’ he said. She was pretty when her face was at rest, wiped clean of the encroachment of anxiety.
‘For starters, He created Marx.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

“I think of her and the other naked women who line the walls and fill the halls of museums, some so ancient the color has washed from their bodies and their marble heads have fallen off. It would be easy to mistake these displays for symbols of respect, for an honor. But what were their lives? And what were their names? no one remembers.”
― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body

“She was the portrait to his father’s Dorian Gray – all the anxiety you’d expect him to feel was manifest in her.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire

“Not every man with a heart is understanding, not every man with ears is a listener, and not every man with eyes is able to see.”
― imam ali