Sara Farizan Quotes

Does it go away?" she asks. "Missing each other?"
I think about how much I missed Maman. I still do, though it isn´t as acute as it once was.
"A little bit," I whisper.
"Enough so that life continues. In a year you won´t even think about me. " She turns around in my arms and looks up at me, tugging at a strand of my hair.
"don´t say stupid things, Sahar. You´re smarter than that.

You're not a phase, Leila. If anything, you're the only thing in my life that makes sense these days." I

There is no fairy godmother, Cinderella. Life doesn't work that way. If you're patient and go through the steps, you will be able to change. But there's a lot of energy that goes into a transformation.

Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.

It's the ambiguity that throws people; they want to know which box to put you in.

How do people do this? How do people work up the courage to be themselves even if it means facing rejection from people who love them? Why don't people get medals for this?

She begins to undress and I soak in every curve, every part of her that she sees as a flaw and I see as a revelation.

I love you. You're my whole reason to exist. That's why this is hard.

I wish there was a manual on how to come out and what a young gay person is supposed to do. Like,

I wish I had gaydar. I wish it were something you could pick up in a store.

I'm not heterophobic or anything. I just wish I didn't have to watch them express their lust for each other all the time.