Salmadeera Quotes

The reason the organ is named after our insides is quite simple. The sound it makes is garish and insulting. Have you seen what happens to the organs of a person in love? It would make God surrender. I am a human body turned inside out. My soft skin is saved for me alone. See, some women don’t want to be touched, and I know you want to brand me yours, but darling, I don’t want you to love me. I want you to be terrified.

     — Salma Deera, Girls Who Don't Care for Being Touched
 

it’s like this: say there’s a whole room of people and you’re somewhere in the middle of them all. i walk in and i see you, but you don’t suddenly become the only person in the room. god no. you become the room. you are the room.
 

full of war.

 me aLone.

When I love, it happens almost all at once. It is inconsiderate, unrefined— a child screeching in a supermarket. It is a thunder clap. It is a small village blackout. It is Aphrodite rising from the sea foam, fully formed.