Maya

“Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin–I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb. I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”
― Salma Deera

“He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House