Sophia

“Daddy?” said Lily. Her face was all lit up as she spoke into the phone. “I’m in the safe place now.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“We started slow—a little drunk, a little dizzy—taking sips of honeyed bliss from dawn-colored lips. The world rolled below us—bicycle bells and newspaper boys, unaware that we were slowly setting the room on fire.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti

“Sometimes we need to be jarred out of our own reality. We base so much of ourselves on other people’s perceptions of us. We live for the compliments, the approval, the applause. But what we really need is a grand, spine-chilling encounter with ourselves to believe we’re freaking magical. And that’s the best kind of believing, because no one can unsay it or take it away from you.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of The Serengeti

“I knew that whenever I thought of love, it would have a face, a name, a voice. And I would hear its heart beating from inside a tent in the wilds of Africa.”
― Leylah Attar, Mists of the Serengeti