“I'm allergic to liars they cause my tongue to swell and sharpen; bullet flesh tongue. I mean my kiss tastes like a shotgun to the lips. You'll like it. It'll make you feel brave.”— Sabrina Benaim, youtube.com
“Her name is a wooden ship, to try and force it into his glass bottle heart would only break her.”— Sabrina Benaim, youtube.com
“History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.”— Seamus Heaney, amazon.com
“I think representation is exceedingly important. I think women of colour in the writing world are an absolute need.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I think little girls of colour need as much representation as they can get, and the more women of colour that exist not just in literature but in the arts world in general, the more chance they have of being represented authentically. I use my voice to give words to the silent. I shout because I HAD…”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people. To be able to be part of a thing so much greater than myself is humbling and I am nothing but grateful that so many wonderful people have read and found healing in my words.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Girl split down the middle and re-sewn. Girl pulling stitches from the backs of her legs. Girl bleeding into plaster. Girl who cannot kneel in church. Girl tearing herself apart.”— Molly McCully Brown, pleiadesmag.com
“There is no good way to talk about pain, how it means you are only ever kissing the image of someone’s face in a pond, hearing their voice through the feeble connection of the last working pay phone in the town where you were born.”— Molly McCully Brown, pleiadesmag.com
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Leave the man who breaks your wings and uses them as crutches just so he can learn to fly.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“I sold my heartbeats for a lived-in cage A secondhand soul and a man I had never met.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“This is a girl who can turn water into fire and fire into rebirth. This is the girl who can taste death a thousand times and use it to relish life.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“I reasoned that the second man was nothing like the first, though they looked the same— swallowed my lies in tiny cups until they both drowned me, Annabel Lee in her tomb by the sounding sea.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“I became accustomed to the cruelty and the raging storms The silent glare followed by the teasing eyes The sweet nothings and the callous words Bruising the soul and battering the mind - Carefully evaluating how far I could go. I recoiled in the hard grip of his hands delicately tying my stomach int…”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“Trust her when she tells you - That like Rapunzel she can spin your hatred into gold.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“My power was never yours, and it was never yours to take. Who am I? I am the second coming, of everything and everyone you tried to break.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“He spins gravity and twists and turns Her words until her world is tipped over Plunging over the edge of its own axis. In his realm, light is dark and peace is chaos He creates a dark room for her which she now calls shelter - comforted in the arms of her murderer.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“I am the truth, your karma, the revolt. I am the resistance, the pieces you tried to keep shattered, coming back together again.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am the truth, your karma, the revolt. I am the resistance, the pieces you tried to keep shattered, coming back together again.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com