14 Quotes by Sumaiya Ahmed

the taste of fine-tuned rage spilling out of a mouth turned up in painted smiles pretend smiles faked smiles

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.

love was never enough tobe a protection, it keeps awayno devil or evil

it was never enough tobleed myself dry, “you will never change

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

i was brought into this worldfrom a prayer, palms together,but never once did you expect meto be your biggest regret.

i learnt anger the way a childis taught to write their name,spelt “sorry” before i could read

i am not pretty or beautiful, just like you told me,with a paintbrush dipped in cruelty

i am a girl with the devil in my eyes and hades as my lover, dancing our way to an underworld, where he pins me againstthe wall and fingers out of me a silent confession