She was upset because she had been worried about it, too. She was upset because I wasn’t talking to her about it. She was upset because I’d promised her one life, and given her another.
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
pain that made me forsake speech to grind my teeth
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated.
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
felt less like someone preparing to climb a career ladder than a buzzing electron about to achieve escape velocity
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
I knew medicine only by its absence
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
Brave New World
Fatema Abulnasrhas quoted2 years ago
the most intoxicating thing I’d experienced, by far, was the volume of romantic poetry