“I Wasn’t Actually In Love, But I Felt A Sort Of Tender Curiosity.”

“Two souls growing together with appreciation for each other. That’s the most beautiful kind of love.”

— Juansen Dizon

“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.

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

“Take out time for YOU. You help everyone else, but you forget to help yourself. You need YOU too!”

— Tony Gaskins 

❝I am not going to give one inch of Palestine to the jews as Palestine is not mine to give but it belongs to the Ummah and Ummah have shed blood to defend this land❞

- Sultan Abdul Hamid the 2nd

“I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.”

— Virginia Woolf 

Palestinian woman picking grapes

The war will end, 

and leaders will shake hands.

That old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son.

And those children will keep waiting for their hero father.

I don't know who sold our homeland,

but I saw who paid the price.

Mahmoud Darwish

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry