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Mona Awad
“Thank god, I tell myself. Which god, I don't know. Between Mother's and Father's gods, I picture a wide black space full of stars. That's the space I whisper up to. Maybe there's a god there too. My own”
Mona Awad, Rouge

Mona Awad
“It's the hour when all the shop mannequins conspire to look menacing. When they all appear to be smirking a little. The mannequins always reminded me of mother. Flawless, white, smiling.”
Mona Awad, Rouge

Mona Awad
“If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up.”
Mona Awad, Rouge
tags: aging

Mona Awad
“Without the sun, what’s the moon? Just a rock in the outer dark. Its illumination just a trick. Just a trick from the sun’s light, which it steals. And that’s what Beauty is too.”
Mona Awad, Rouge

Mona Awad
“Didn't you envy? Didn't you want? A mirror is only a mirror, Belle. It only ever reflects back what we desire and long for”
Mona Awad, Rouge

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