Arwa Abdulkhaliq

“She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in some strange tangential way, he needed her shade as much as she needed his. And she had learned from experience that Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound