Aashika

“Finally, he said, "you know I love you right?"
And I said, "yes."
And then he said, "and you know that I would never want to hurt you?"
And I braced myself, because nobody ever says that unless they're about to hurt you.”
― Sue Zhao

“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin–I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb. I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”
― Salma Deera

“As the old saying goes, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” But that depends on what the hand is feeding you and what the other hand is doing while you’re eating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Then he said: don't you know? I am trying to make you great.

And I said: I do not want to be great, I want to be loved.”
― Sue Zhao