Ayesha Qasim

“Whenever walls are removed, the desire to escape is heightened”
― P.J. Bayliss

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The parts of me that need sanity are whispering one more taste is all I will need to finally regain my faculties. The parts already lost to you remind me a single taste of you is what brought me here, and to take more of you will be diving into my undoing. Knowing I'll never be able to get enough. You're a drug. I'm so thoroughly addicted, I can't see through the high you bring me to realize I can't exist without you anymore.”
― S.J. Stewart, Bound Blossoms and Blades: A Seven Realms Novella

“Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All