“True Love Begins When Nothing Is Looked For In Return.”

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

— Sharon Olds 

This photograph was taken during the first Intifada (1987-1993), it shows a Palestinian boy shot in the heart by Israeli occupation forces. Most of the Palestinians killed during the Intifada were either shot in the heart or the head. via Younes Arar.

Edit: This is a still from ‘Kingdom of Ants’, still a very accurate depiction of reality.

“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

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

When you fall in love with someone, you are falling in love with aspects of God that is visible through them.

What then makes the person so unique ?

It is their willingness to allow the higher lights to channel through their specific shape & form. This is their beauty.

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

— Nicholas Sparks 

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

— Sierra Demulder 

“To Allah do we turn our hopes.” — Quran (9:59)

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