because the love that stayed, through the silence and ache, through the nights no one else saw, was mine.

— Asra Amjad, Even the moon left me - poetry book about love

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Even the moon left me - poetry book about love

by Asra Amjad

Poetry · 137 pages

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“There are moments in childhood that don’t pass with time—they settle into the folds of you, like dust into fabric.”

— Asra Amjad, Guilt in Gold - Women Empowerment Book

“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, Guilt in Gold - Women Empowerment Book

“There’s a kind of memory that doesn’t live in images or events—it lives in the body.”

— Asra Amjad, Guilt in Gold - Women Empowerment Book

“Always trying to please, to perform, to protect others from pain—while quietly drowning in my own.”

— Asra Amjad, Guilt in Gold - Women Empowerment Book

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Asra Amjad

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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