shadha umer

“The swoop of disappointment as I watch him walk away is almost as pronounced as my relief.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“But"—Aurore's jaw trembled slightly—"she doesn't deserve to be forgotten like this. She shouldn't be a footnote. This shouldn't be the only entry she even has. She deserves her own chapter. She deserves a whole bloody book of her own.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“This is a love story with too many beginnings. I refuse to think about how it is going to end.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“For Frank, Love Beth If the man could hear me, I would tell him this: It was instant, Dad It was instant. No pain The sorrow was all your own. Enough now. I would tell him that. Lives should be measured in intensity. Remember mine For its glory-stretch of furious light and wondrous beauty. The world we love-lived Is earth Is dust Is me, Dad.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country