“Humidity did terrible things to me. I‘d be much prettier if I lived in the desert.”
“It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.”
“It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me…only luckier.”
“Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home.Hannah, however, did the unforgivable.She deserted me in our own backyard.”
“My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.”
“The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.”