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
“In the quiet ache behind my eyes when I looked at myself too closely.”
“because the love that stayed, through the silence and ache, through the nights no one else saw, was mine.”
“When others wore their bodies like they belonged in them, she was still tugging at sleeves, hiding knees, covering skin that felt too loud.”
“To be known, even briefly, is to be reminded that you exist beyond your pain.”
“There are moments in childhood that don’t pass with time—they settle into the folds of you, like dust into fabric.”
“When something once sacred becomes a source of fear, the rupture is quiet—but it changes everything.”
“There are women who suffer in silence, who bury their pain behind locked doors, who swallow their grief to keep the world steady for their children.”
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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