“Weeping Is Not The Same Thing As Crying, It Takes Your Whole Body To Weep, And When It’s Over, You

There is a castle in the city, with walls so strong, that if you live there, nothing will hurt you.

“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

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

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

Kız Kulesi-İstanbul by emrkrm

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.

"And I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more."

— Franz Kafka

I feel like I’m just “trying to get through the day,” every day. My entire life is slipping through my fingers.

"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