When the girls learned to laugh in unison, she was still trying to catch the rhythm. — Asra Amjad, Even the moon left me - poetry book about love Copy Share WhatsApp
by Asra Amjad
Poetry · 137 pages
“sometimes it just sits beside you until you forget how to feel anything at all.”
“In the quiet ache behind my eyes when I looked at myself too closely.”
“by the time i realized i was hurting, i had already learned how to live with pain.”
“Sometimes the answer is not in changed circumstances, but in a changed heart.”
“Always trying to please, to perform, to protect others from pain—while quietly drowning in my own.”
“The silence I once used to stay safe became something else entirely, a weapon, a boundary, and a tool.”
“There’s a kind of memory that doesn’t live in images or events—it lives in the body.”
Asra Amjad is a writer of deep silences and even deeper truths. Her work emerges from the intersections of memory, identity, and emotional survival. With Guilt in Gold, she offers her most personal…
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