“It’s A Hurtful Place The World, In And Of Itself. We Don’t Need To Add To It. And We’re In A

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman 

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

— C.S. Lewis 

“When words come from the heart of anyone, they find a place in the heart of another.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib (Radhiallahu Anhu)

Akka (Acre), Palestine. Pre 1948.

“How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.”

— Kurt Tucholsky

“There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“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

“I have a homeland that I am constantly longing for..”

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

— Sharon Olds