Cherry

“..America feels to me like a factory: you clock in, make your money, gossip with some of your coworkers, and when you’re ready, you clock out. Leave, and never look back. There was no community. No life. (119)”
― Naz Kutub, No Time Like Now

“All I want is a cup of water. I feel like I've been crying for so long. There is no moisture left in my entire body. And my skin is flaking away into dust, leaving behind a desert of bones. (280)”
― Naz Kutub, No Time Like Now

“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith