Salma El-Wardany

“when loud people go quiet, they are either desperately sad or doing something they shouldn’t be doing,”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“They know you have to turn a blind eye when a woman is in love because it’s already too late. They do her the great service of looking in other directions and together they gently take tiny red flags and fold them away, placing them somewhere out of reach, where they’ll be easily forgotten.”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things