Suchona Hasnat

“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did. Nothing made me think about the world like reading did. Nothing else filled me up. Nothing else emptied me out. Sentences and paragraphs would drift through my head like clouds.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“You are nothing until someone wants you dead.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Decisions are power.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Power is knowing what you are capable of and choosing if and when you give it to the world. Power is knowing when to be delicate and when to be soft, like my sister, and when to make foolish, small-minded people think beauty and goodness are the same. She has this look, where she makes you feel you are the only thing in the universe. She can make you feel like you are resilient; like you are enormous, and omnipotent, and that's where her power comes from. Her power comes from knowing she can make you feel powerful, and while you're sitting idly in her gaze, she can crush you and tear everything out from under you.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy