“You Can Play It Safe, And I Wouldn’t Blame You For It. You Can Continue As You’ve Been Doing,

إنني أسألُ مليون سؤال

وبعينيك أرى صمتَ الحجر

I ask a million questions

But see in your eyes only the silence of stones.

- Mahmoud Darwish

“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.’”

— Courtney C. Stevens

"We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they're not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence."

—Beau Taplin, Neatly As Novels

The curse of aesthetic...

“You are so good. So good, you’re always feeling so much. And sometimes it feels like you’re gonna bust wide open from all the feeling, don’t it? People like you are the best in the world, but you sure do suffer for it.”

— Silas House 

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green

A Palestinian coin older than Israel

A Palestinian coin older than Israel

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

الاهتمام في الحب أشبه بأن تقوم بتربية قطة، لا يمكنك أن تقدم لها البطاطس المقلية لأنها وجبتك المفضلة وﻷنك تعشقها كثيرا، ثم تتذمر بعد ذلك حين لا يعجبها اﻷمر، وترى أنها لا تقدر ما تفعله من أجلها والوقت والجهد الذين تبذلهما في شراء البطاطس وغسلها وتقشيرها وتقطيعها وقليها، ثم تخبر بعد ذلك أنها متطلبة وأنها لا تستحقك، في الحب إما أن تقدم لمن معك ما يحتاجه هو تماما أو حينها سيكون كل ما تقدمه، حتى وإن كان أفضل ما لديك، لا معنى له.

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray, O. Wilde