“There Is Nothing Wrong With Staying With Someone And Trying To Make It Work. Just Be Sure You Know

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

— Ann Patchett

Palestinian woman picking grapes

❝I am not going to give one inch of Palestine to the jews as Palestine is not mine to give but it belongs to the Ummah and Ummah have shed blood to defend this land❞

- Sultan Abdul Hamid the 2nd

“We will never leave”

Nabil Alkurd sprayed on the wall of his home in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Charles Bukowski

As summer nears, some of the last representatives of Anatolian nomads have started their historical journey to cooler climates.

“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

— Joanne Harris

“Her eyes a promised Jerusalem and a breeze a top of Carmel. Suddenly I awake.. This breeze won’t carry me to my beloved, and I know nothing of you but your name and secrets untold So I return to my embrace to escape myself.”

— Amer Hussein

Kız Kulesi-İstanbul by emrkrm

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali