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the world didn’t need to scream, it only had to keep correcting me, and i kept folding inward, reshaping myself until even my reflection looked like a stranger i was trying to please.

— 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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Themes Heartbreak

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