Noor

“I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.”
― Mathias Malzieu, La Mécanique du cœur

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Gluck

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride