It had been her idea, after all, to teach Sarah some compliance, but more than once Fareeda had found them huddled at the kitchen table, whispering to each other, sometimes even reading together—reading, of all things!
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
The last thing she needed was for either of them to read that sort of Americanized smut.
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
Instead of putting his foot down, as she’d told him, he let his wife run the show
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
Have you ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy?” Deya sighed irritably. “I’ve read about it.” “It says we attract what we think. Whatever belief a person has about the future comes true because the person believes it.”
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
and the girl who read American novels voraciously, who wanted to go to college, whose eyes, she saw now, sparked rebellion.
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
But this was the way of life, she told herself. There was nothing she could do about it. Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn’t change things—that she didn’t have a choice—made living it more bearable.
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
Every time she tried to talk to her sisters, she’d clench up, racked with nerves and anger.
Arina Solovyevahas quoted2 years ago
Sarah stared, concern etched on her face.
Arooma Zehrahas quotedlast year
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
—Maya Angelou
Arooma Zehrahas quotedlast year
Where I come from, voicelessness is the condition of my gender, as normal as the bosoms on a woman’s chest, as necessary as the next generation growing inside her belly.