Umm Ilyas

“Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: York Notes Advanced

“When I am with you I feel I am with my own soul”
― Avijeet Das

“I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.”
― bell hooks

“It’s not you. It’s anyone. Sometimes I don’t want anyone around. Some afternoons I lie on my bed and the light comes through the shutters on the floor and I think I never want to leave my own room.”
― Joan Didion, Run River