Afshan Ejaz

“Sighing, she wondered if there was enough time to make herself some tea.”
― Hafsa.A. Jawad, The Tales of Arcana Fortune

“We didn’t take enough photos of Bobby, we didn’t understand photos would be the only thing we’d have left.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“Some words are more important than others—I learned this, growing up in the Scriptorium. But it took me a long time to understand why.”
― Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow