“We Will Never Leave”

“Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

— Ann Patchett

“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”

— Sharon Olds 

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky.

- Nizar Qabbani, My Lover Asks Me

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

— Jane Austen

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway 

Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

“I exist in two places, here, and where you are.”

— Margaret Atwood 

Palestinian woman picking grapes

“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly…”

— William Alexander Percy 

I'm sending you love and poetry, darling