Firdaws

“Don’t lose what you had to get something which just may not work.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography

“As a kid I’d made the mistake of offering up overly complicated explanations, thinking that the more detailed I was, the more her doubt would ebb. Those explanations usually ended up revealing some kind of secret I wasn’t even aware I was keeping from her. Now I knew to say as little as possible.”
― Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain

“It had taken three different sleepovers at three different houses for me to realize that not all families worked this way.”
― Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain

“She had to know what I’d only just now discovered: that peace could only exist in this family when we lied about everything, at least to each other.”
― Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain