Salma Deera Quotes

#1. Take back your rib, Eve cries.
I didn't want it. I never did. It is weighing me down.

Salma Deera

#2. in your dream, you are jealous of tragedies.
and the truth is, we all want our own tragedy,
because life is pale without it.
we want the teeth, the screaming.
the survival
that comes with it.

Salma Deera

#3. my curse is that i fall in love with
men who believe in gods but not in me.

Salma Deera

#4. but i want to ask her what is wrong with being dark and heavy
with your feet firmly on soil?

Salma Deera

#5. Most actors can't make any kind of living.

Viggo Mortensen

#6. Chihuahuas are the perfect pet if you don't have a person in your life who screams and shits their pants every time there's a noise.

Dana Gould

#7. 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.

Salma Deera

#8. There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he, turns out to be, someone to watch over me.

Ira Gershwin

#9. The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.

Theodor Mommsen

#10. You're your own problem

Thabiso Monkoe

#11. you are ares' lost sister.
goddess of sedated battles and lost girls.
always full of other people and never yourself.

Salma Deera

#12. but tell me, who was it that made you dangerous?

it was no one.

it was me.


it was everyone.

Salma Deera

#13. love is just a synonym for absinthe.
absinthe is a synonym for 'i don't
know what i'm doing anymore.

Salma Deera

#14. Consciously soak in moments. Turn them into movies, into stills. Don't ever forget the seconds that make life soft and beautiful. Collect them. Review them in your dreams.

Unknown

#15. I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules," said Dumbledore.
Ron opened his mouth in horror.
"Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words," Dumbledore went on, smiling.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Is this how you get dates? You drag women into your car, lock them inside and don't let them out till they've agreed to go out with you?

Ann Bruce

#17. I got roped into Twitter. I actually quite enjoy it! But I don't go on as often as some.

Amanda Tapping

#18. My love translated sounds like a dead language.

Salma Deera

#19. i want to discover myself.
i want to destroy myself.
i want to be a secret that nobody but i can ruin.

Salma Deera

#20. The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#21. In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the market will do, one must follow a value philosophy at all times.

Seth Klarman

#22. the centre of every poem is this:
i have loved you. i have had to deal with that.

Salma Deera

#23. when i love, it happens almost all at once.
it is inconsiderate, unrefined -
a child screeching in a supermarket
it's a thunderclap.
it is a small village blackout.
it is aphrodite rising from the sea foam, fully formed.

Salma Deera

#24. in astronomy class, the muse urania angrily watches a panel of men talk about the wonders of the stars as though they created them.

Salma Deera