Batool Zainab Suleman > Batool Zainab's Quotes

“Burning is such a painful way to go. A bullet is more merciful.” I nod even though she can’t see me, an understanding washing over. “Until a bullet stops me.”
― Lee Jacquot, Queen of Madness

“A queen doesn’t sit idle in her ivory tower.” I stand, shoving my hands in my pockets. “But fuck, I do hope I’m around to see when you fit the crown on your head.”
― Lee Jacquot, Queen of Madness

“It’s important to tell people your story. How else will word spread that people can survive?”
― Lee Jacquot, Queen of Madness

“Because feminism, contrary to popular belief, isn’t about hating on guys like me. It’s all about all of us working toward equality, together.”
― Michelle Quach, Not Here to Be Liked

“I want you. That's never been the fucking issue. Jesus Christ, I fucking want you. All the time, every day. To the edge of my own goddamn sanity, I want you.”
― Neve Wilder, Want Me

“For a handful of seconds, it was more combustion than desire, all that furious chemistry flowing between us and igniting like magma. Incendiary to the point of pain. That's what it felt like.”
― Neve Wilder, Want Me

“...I really wanted to make that all his fault instead of my own. But it wasn't. Not really.
[...]
I said it over and over again to myself, but the words refused to sink in; they just sat on the surface of my brain with nowhere to go because all the dark recesses of my brain were already filled with him.”
― Neve Wilder, Want Me

“That's not handholding. That's like ... hand fucking. Or hand seduction. Your hand is seducing mine and my hand has zero game. It's just gonna hop into bed with yours without dinner or a drink first. Maybe I need to give it a lecture about standards.”
― Neve Wilder, Want Me

“the centre of every poem is this:
The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.

— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

“Call me by a man’s name instead of a woman’s, and suddenly every horrific thing I’ve done makes me a hero.”
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea