Samama Reza Books & Quotes

“I stared at him, and in that moment, I realized something painfully mundane yet profoundly important: if a man ever tells you he’ll never hurt you again after hurting you, he will. Again and again.”

Heartbreak Abuse Quote

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“I told myself I don’t miss him. I told myself I can’t. But my heart... it ached like I did. Like I always will. I wish there was an easier way to let go.I wish letting go didn’t feel like ripping the wires of your heart out while it still beat.”

Heartbreak Memories Of Love

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“Love is good, Sara... It’s the heartbreak that isn’t. It’s the pain that isn’t. It’s when you lose them. It isn’t.”

Love Heartbreak Loss Of Love

Book:Anti-Romantic

Source: Anti-Romantic

“It sucks that nothing’s under my control. I suck.”

Heartbreak

Book:Anti-Romantic

Source: Anti-Romantic

“Why are women always taught to tolerate, but men are never taught to control? Why is it my fault when they cross the line? Why is it always me who has to bite my tongue? Why is it always a woman’s job to stay calm when a man misbehaves? Why do I have to be the one to smile, to forgive?”

Women Respect

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“I wonder, Leila... would they have stopped if they knew how terrible I felt? How miserable I was every time they fought? If they understood that, for me, the world ended each time their voices rose, would it have made a difference? Or was kindness never part of their plan?”

Sadness Childhood Trauma

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“Please, care for my heart that longs to be buried beneath the soft sand it grew up on. Don’t make me leave... don’t take me away from the only place I’ve ever truly belonged to.”

Loss Grief Sadness

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“Lifelessness doesn’t have a feeling; it’s simply emptiness, a hollow void clinging to your chest where emotions should be. But sometimes, like a sudden storm, the emotions crash in, overwhelming me, and I’m the only one left to push my tears away.”

Sadness Loneliness Lifelessness

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“For the first time in my life, I understood what freedom truly tasted like. It wasn’t something loud or dramatic. It was a cool, sweet, almost sugary delight you could only taste with your heart, the more cracked it was, the more space it had to feel it.”

Freedom Travel Heartache

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“I haven’t done anything wrong. I simply fell in love. Why is that considered punishable?”

Love Heartache

Book:Anti-Romantic

Source: Anti-Romantic

“The bravest thing someone can do is confess they’re scared.”

Power Of Words

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“It was my first time falling in love, and I fell so hard it almost felt ridiculous. Problems that once weighed on me no longer mattered; love had a way of distracting me, pulling me in, keeping me on edge, and driving me to the brink of insanity even though I kept insisting I wasn’t losing it.”

Romance Obsession First Love

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“But death seemed so sweet, to have no pain, a soul unburdened by guilt, a life free of trauma, an existence where I could fade away between countless others…”

Grief Trauma

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“I’m not like this every day. Most of the time, I have my traumas buried six feet under, smothered by newer, brighter memories. And yet, like a zombie clawing its way out of the grave, old feelings, memories I wish I could forget, manage to pull themselves up. On the worst days, I’m the one helping them out.”

Memories Loss Trauma

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“How could they make me fall in love with a city I called home, a city where I stitched my heart and soul into, only to make me rip it all out and leave? The breeze that brought me happiness, the waves of the beach where I found peace, the people who felt more like family than my own, how could they ask me to leave it all behind? The city where I laughed, cried, grew up, and truly lived... How could they expect me to walk away, knowing it would be the last time I strolled through these familiar streets that to me felt like heaven?”

Memories Childhood Nostalgia City Dubai

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“If I wanted to live my dream life, I’d have to be my own Prince Charming. Because, at the end of the day, the only person who can truly rescue me is myself.”

Feminism Love Yourself

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“it’s so liberating, to have a job that pays well in a world where women are often expected to simply co-exist. I got to carve my own space, to exist on my own terms. Earning my own money, however I chose to, saving it, and spending it in any way I pleased with no one to answer to but myself. It felt like a quiet rebellion, a way of taking control of my own future in a world that didn’t always offer women that kind of freedom.”

Feminism Girl Power

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“A heart unbroken felt everything more deeply; when happy, it soared as if walking on clouds.”

Heart Happiness Nostalgia

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“Because mother, I’m not your carbon copy, I’m a reflection, a legacy, the freedom my ancestors fought for. I shall not stay locked up when I can fly.”

Inspiration Love Yourself

Book:To Hell With You

Source: To Hell With You

“a bitter-sweet pain remains within my heart; I will start a new chapter of my life but leave the life I so dearly love behind.”

Marriage Married Life

Book:Anti-Romantic

Source: Anti-Romantic

Samama Reza Books

To Hell With You

Anti-Romantic

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