Sofia Hossain

“She has no name for that feeling of utter abandonment, nor the feeling that comes over her on fair days, when she stands in the courtyard from the photo, and the voice of the loudspeaker booms front behind the trees, and the music and commercials run together in an unintelligible blur. It is as if she were standing outside the fete, separated from some earlier thing.”
― Annie Ernaux, Les Années

“The man is nothing. It’s what you think you are missing inside of yourself. I promise that you are missing nothing.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

“It takes a whole lot longer to dispose of a body than to dispose of a soul, especially if you don’t want to leave any evidence of foul play.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“Without love and trust, resentment is the only thing that’s left.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs