Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past...

-James Joyce

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.

-Sylvia plath

“The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Violent in nature we can't last."

"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."

-Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

فتحت قلبي إلى البدايات الجديدة
وكلّ يوم أعتبره فرصة للبدء من جديد
أعيد بناء نفسي بكُلّ ليلة
وفقط أفتح قلبي للامبالاة الكون الحميدة.

-Merrit Malloy

"My mouth hasn't shut up about you since you kissed it."

"When you are finished changing, you are finished".

-Benjamin Franklin

"But my story is more important to me than any poet's story to him, for it is my own-and it is the story of a human being-not an invented, idealised person but a real, live, unique being.
What constitutes a real, alive human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men-each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature-are shot down wholesale. If, however, we were not something more than unique human beings and each man jack of us could really be dismissed from this world with a bullet, there would be no more point in relating stories at all. But even man is not only himself; he is also the unique, particular, always significant and remarkable point where the phenomena of the world intersect once and for all and never again."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

-جبران خليل جبران، المواكب

اعطِني النّايَ وغَنّ وانسَ ما قلتُ وقلتَا
إنما النّطقُ هباءٌ فأفدني ما فَعَلتا