Wedad

“That was her escape, I realized. Where her body couldn’t take her, her mind went.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

“But her personality made her glow. People looked at her and couldn’t help but smile.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

“By the time they were done, America’s progressive and radical movements, which had given the country the middle class and opened up our political system, did not exist. It was upon the corpses of these radical movements, which had fought for the working class, that the corporate state was erected in the late twentieth century.”
― Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion

“His grief is not new. It has had the time to bed down within him, to become part of his foundations, rather than something that rocks them.”
― S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep