Leda

“There are thirty-six photos on your four-year-old phone, and all of them are of dismembered bodies,”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“My world is made of paper. The smell of ink soothes me more than the scent of flowers.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“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.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“I looked up then, searched the sky. When I found the moon, I found God, when I saw the stars, I saw God, when I let myself be inhaled by the vast, expanding universe, I understood God the way Seneca once did– God is everything one sees and everything one does not see.”
― Tahereh Mafi, An Emotion of Great Delight: A YA Novel of Muslim American Identity, Grief, and Hope in Post-9/11 America