I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!

~ Alia Mamdouh

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And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

~ Alia Mamdouh

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