Ayesha Qasim

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The parts of me that need sanity are whispering one more taste is all I will need to finally regain my faculties. The parts already lost to you remind me a single taste of you is what brought me here, and to take more of you will be diving into my undoing. Knowing I'll never be able to get enough. You're a drug. I'm so thoroughly addicted, I can't see through the high you bring me to realize I can't exist without you anymore.”
― S.J. Stewart, Bound Blossoms and Blades: A Seven Realms Novella

“I don’t think it’s possible to ever stop loving someone. In time, those feelings simply become buried beneath other ones. But once in a while you will see something that reminds you of them, something that causes those feelings to suddenly stir awake. And for one split second, it throws you back to that time—months ago, years ago, however long ago it might be—and you remember. And you feel.”
― Kayla Edwards, Dreams of Ice and Iron

“I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.”
― Kelly Moran, Exposure