The Weight of Tender Things Quotes

“I don't know how I ended up in a world this miserable.
All this suffering just to die one day.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“People, people, people — an ocean of people, but I can't find even a drop of humanity.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I am sick. I am nauseous. The problem is I am starting to understand life.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“All my life I have been a rower of two boats. I have been here physically and somewhere else mentally. My existence is split, my soul is cut, my heart is rent asunder.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“If words could water, I wonder what mine would do — blossom flowers or burn gardens?”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Of people, of places, surfaces don't interest me. Depths do.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“You constantly have to pay a price to be different from the majority.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I can't process that I actually exist.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I am so unbearably rebellious, so undesirably human.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I am a disappointment to the world as the world is to me.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I have seen hell at eye level. That's why I look at the stars, in the hope of finding heaven above my head. Having lived through darkness, I now understand the light.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Nothing beyond tangible, nothing of the soul.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Love should give you the space to exist as an ordinary person.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Everything we were afraid to lose, we lost. Everything we were afraid would happen, happened.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“The world, my dear, is uncomfortably, unfathomably, and unnecessarily ugly.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I am a lamentable tragedy.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“We are living in a zombified society where people eat one another mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually. We live in a society where people eat humans humanly.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I don't know how I ended up in a world this miserable. All this suffering just to die one day.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“This fall, I will be grieving... watching the
leaves let go as I learn to do the same. It's better to disappoint others than to betray your own soul.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“And no one can tell what's inside them. Hearts are heavier than the earth and deeper than the oceans.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things