Sumaya Abdillahi

“I hated my face, for example, found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it, and therefore every time I came to work I made a painful effort to carry myself as independently as possible, and to express as much nobility as possible with my face. "let it not be a beautiful face," I thought, "but, to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one." Yet I knew, with certainty and suffering, that i would never be able to express all those perfections with the face I had. The most terrible thing was that I found it positively stupid. And I would have been quite satisfied with intelligence. Let's even say I would even have agreed to a mean expression, provided only that at the same time my face be found terribly intelligent.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground