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Her death had been the first of many. And the fault was Isla’s.
“I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgement, and its cold, resentful eyes. I saw it all around me.”
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“There are thirty-six photos on your four-year-old phone, and all of them are of dismembered bodies,”
― House of Earth and Blood
― House of Earth and Blood
“Take my eyes. Take my hands. Take the breath from my body. Strip the skin from my bones. Were I able to offer you my soul I would; I'd tear it from my flesh this moment and give it to you”
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“Without Henry, she was nothing, and the wolves would be waiting to pounce . . .”
― Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession
― Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession
“My sadness had made me noteworthy. Beautiful. Had imbued in me a kind of dignity, a weight I could not uncarry.”
― An Emotion of Great Delight: A YA Novel of Muslim American Identity, Grief, and Hope in Post-9/11 America
― An Emotion of Great Delight: A YA Novel of Muslim American Identity, Grief, and Hope in Post-9/11 America
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