221 books
—
99 voters
“I will catch you. I will claim you. I will love you to bits.”
As I love you, the junk man’s daughter thinks. As I love you and love you and love you. And she does. She loves him so much. As she loves everyone. It is dangerous, this love, and she can’t control it. It is ever so much bigger than she, and growing by the day. It is a river. An ocean. The sky. Her love crushes planets, shatters suns, burns whole galaxies to cinders and dust.
“And then, child, I will drain you.”
Yes, she thinks. You can try.
“Do you hear me? I WILL DRAIN YOU DRY.”
Try, she thinks. Try and you will drown in it. You will drown, and drown, and drown.”
― Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
As I love you, the junk man’s daughter thinks. As I love you and love you and love you. And she does. She loves him so much. As she loves everyone. It is dangerous, this love, and she can’t control it. It is ever so much bigger than she, and growing by the day. It is a river. An ocean. The sky. Her love crushes planets, shatters suns, burns whole galaxies to cinders and dust.
“And then, child, I will drain you.”
Yes, she thinks. You can try.
“Do you hear me? I WILL DRAIN YOU DRY.”
Try, she thinks. Try and you will drown in it. You will drown, and drown, and drown.”
― Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“To tell you the truth, the world seemed full of sad people – those who slept on the uncovered stoops of shops as well as those who lived in high-rise mansions. The man who walks about on foot worries that he doesn’t have decent shoes to wear. The man who rides the automobile frets that he doesn’t have the latest model car. Every man’s complaint is valid in its own way. Every man’s wish is legitimate in its own right.”
― Naked Voices: Stories & Sketches
― Naked Voices: Stories & Sketches
“Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works. Work and pay bills, use dental floss and get to meetings on time, stand in line and fill out forms, come to grips with cables and put furniture together, change tires on the car and charge the phone and switch the coffee machine off and not forget to sign the kids up for swimming lessons. We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of "Don't Forget!"s and "Remember!"s over us. We don't have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents' meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they're doing. We're the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff. And everyone else's children can swim.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
Do About Nothing - 2015 reading challenge.
— 6 members
— last activity Jan 10, 2015 11:28PM
This group is for the people taking part in the Do About Nothing's reading challenge of 2015 which can be viewed here>>>http://doaboutnothing.blogspot ...more
Pakistani Readers
— 3562 members
— last activity Nov 21, 2025 09:46AM
For Pakistani Readers, authors and every one who like books.
Afifah’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Afifah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Afifah
Lists liked by Afifah












































