Status Updates From Conflito Interno

“Someone once told him that according to palmistry the lines on your left hand represent the destiny you were born with and the lines on your right the destiny you make for yourself. It had since pleased him to note the wide divergence of the two.”

“‘We’ll always have each other’ when Isma had never been always; always stretched both forward and back, womb to tomb, always was only Parvaiz.”

For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.

“He rested his head on his knees. He didn’t know how to break out of these currents of history, how to shake free of the demons he had attached to his own herls.”

“The volume was off allowing for some pleasing moments of synchresis, such as when the dogs were released from their cages just as the front door was hurled open by a drunk” - never seen a character with such developed hearing

“There were times he was not a twin to a twin but rather the only male in a house that knew all the secrets that women shared with one another but none that fathers taught their sons.”