Julia Thomas-Singh

“I feared her love for me was like a Pakistani glacier. It was difficult to say if it was growing or retreating.”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, Thinner Than Skin

“when you fall asleep in that sort of love you wake up with bruises on your neck”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“Have you noticed that when men want freedom, the conversation is about the nature of action, violence or non-violence? But when women want freedom, the conversation is about the nature of women, natural or unnatural?”
― Uzma Aslam Khan, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian