Shaima Salim

“The world is under no obligation to be sane or orderly.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I want to be William Shakespeare and Galileo and Robert Frost. I want to be Sappho. I want to be Jane Austen. I want to be Holden Caulfield and Marilyn Monroe and Joan of Arc. I’m sad to think they came before me in history, they made their mark without me.
But they were there.
They happened.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“I thought he made me a different person altogether, but maybe I was always holding those pieces inside me, waiting for a chance to use them.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“The effectiveness of your persona is inversely proportional to what people know about you.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows