Leda

“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

“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”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate

“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

“Her beauty was its own violence”
― Tahereh Mafi, Every Spiral of Fate