To Hell With You Quotes

“The bravest thing someone can do is confess they’re scared.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Every scar, every flaw you think you have,” he said, wrapping his arms around me again, “is mine to love. And love again.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“I told myself I don’t miss him. I told myself I can’t. But my heart... it ached like I did. Like I always will. I wish there was an easier way to let go.I wish letting go didn’t feel like ripping the wires of your heart out while it still beat.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“For the first time in my life, I understood what freedom truly tasted like. It wasn’t something loud or dramatic. It was a cool, sweet, almost sugary delight you could only taste with your heart, the more cracked it was, the more space it had to feel it.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Because mother, I’m not your carbon copy, I’m a reflection, a legacy, the freedom my ancestors fought for. I shall not stay locked up when I can fly.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Why are women always taught to tolerate, but men are never taught to control?
Why is it my fault when they cross the line? Why is it always me who has to bite my tongue? Why is it always a woman’s job to stay calm when a man misbehaves? Why do I have to be the one to smile, to forgive?”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“I’m not like this every day. Most of the time, I have my traumas buried six feet under, smothered by newer, brighter memories. And yet, like a zombie clawing its way out of the grave, old feelings, memories I wish I could forget, manage to pull themselves up. On the worst days, I’m the one helping them out.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Lifelessness doesn’t have a feeling; it’s simply emptiness, a hollow void clinging to your chest where emotions should be. But sometimes, like a sudden storm, the emotions crash in, overwhelming me, and I’m the only one left to push my tears away.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“it’s so liberating, to have a job that pays well in a world where women are often expected to simply co-exist. I got to carve my own space, to exist on my own terms. Earning my own money, however I chose to, saving it, and spending it in any way I pleased with no one to answer to but myself. It felt like a quiet rebellion, a way of taking control of my own future in a world that didn’t always offer women that kind of freedom.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“I stared at him, and in that moment, I realized something painfully mundane yet profoundly important: if a man ever tells you he’ll never hurt you again after hurting you, he will. Again and again.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Please, care for my heart that longs to be buried beneath the soft sand it grew up on. Don’t make me leave... don’t take me away from the only place I’ve ever truly belonged to.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“How could they make me fall in love with a city I called home, a city where I stitched my heart and soul into, only to make me rip it all out and leave? The breeze that brought me happiness, the waves of the beach where I found peace, the people who felt more like family than my own, how could they ask me to leave it all behind? The city where I laughed, cried, grew up, and truly lived... How could they expect me to walk away, knowing it would be the last time I strolled through these familiar streets that to me felt like heaven?”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Do not demand kindness from me, Leila. I’m not kind. The only thing you’re allowed to demand from me is love. I may not always be pleasant, but I need you to feel loved... by me, always.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“I wonder, Leila... would they have stopped if they knew how terrible I felt? How miserable I was every time they fought? If they understood that, for me, the world ended each time their voices rose, would it have made a difference? Or was kindness never part of their plan?”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“Was it love, or was it addiction? What was it that made me break every rule for him? Why did lying come so easily now when it once left me wracked with guilt for days?”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“as if I’d just proven myself to be the perfect girlfriend, he smiled. And to someone like him – a psycho cloaked in charm – I probably was.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“It was my first time falling in love, and I fell so hard it almost felt ridiculous. Problems that once weighed on me no longer mattered; love had a way of distracting me, pulling me in, keeping me on edge, and driving me to the brink of insanity even though I kept insisting I wasn’t losing it.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“A heart unbroken felt everything more deeply; when happy, it soared as if walking on clouds.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“But death seemed so sweet, to have no pain, a soul unburdened by guilt, a life free of trauma, an existence where I could fade away between countless others…”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You

“If I wanted to live my dream life, I’d have to be my own Prince Charming. Because, at the end of the day, the only person who can truly rescue me is myself.”
― Samama Reza, To Hell With You