Natasha

“I shall hide it all away, in a place no one will ever find. Everything, everything. But especially my soul.”
― Sabahattin Ali (Urdu Translation Huma Anwar), Madonna In a Fur Coat

“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“We are nothing if not thorough in our deception of others.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“That said, I had always been one of those quiet boys who preferred dreams to the real world. I was, in addition, absurdly shy, and therefore often mistaken for a fool, which upset me deeply.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat