Reality Quotes

“i can’t fit the smiling compliments inside of me, i try to make room for the

‘pretty’ and ‘beautiful’, but i am overflowing with what you painted me in.”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“i am not pretty or beautiful, just like you told me,

with a paintbrush dipped in cruelty”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“love was never enough to
be a protection, it keeps away
no devil or evil”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“i learnt anger the way a child
is taught to write their name,

spelt “sorry” before i could read”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“i mistook your love for protection

against every evil thing, and now
i know you never will.”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“it was never enough to
bleed myself dry, “you will never change”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“i was brought into this world
from a prayer, palms together,
but never once did you expect me
to be your biggest regret.”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality

“Maybe that’s why I started thinking that my sexuality or virginity was where all my worth and honour lay. For a while, I tried to see myself as something maybe a little more than just a girl with a tragic back story. For some time, I was waiting to be saved and I was waiting for some prince charming to come and rescue me like in the movies, take me from this house I am trapped in, where I was suffocating on the traditions and expectations”
― Sumaiya Ahmed, Reality