“I’m Sorry For My Inability To Let Unimportant Things Go.”

“But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”

— Shel Silverstein 

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

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon 

Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed homes following attacks from Israel. Beit Hanoun, Gaza, Palestine.   Photograph: Khalil Hamra

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

— Ernest Hemingway 

أعود ..

لأنّها كفني . أعود

لأنّها بدني

أعود لأنها وطني

I return..

Because she is my shroud. I return

Because she is my body.

I return because she is my nation.

- Mahmoud Darwish

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”

— C. Assaad 

Akka (Acre), Palestine. Pre 1948.

“People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.”

— John Patrick 

من از خانوادہ ای ھستم که عشق پیشهٔ آنهاست

“I come from a family whose profession is love.”

- Nizar Qabbani