"If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony and narcissism in place of conflict. In the love between man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other. They form an alliance. It is, in a way, self-love. I love June because she is the woman I would like to be."

-Anaïs Nin

"أحببت ضحكته، فقد كانت كلحظات الشمس الخاطفة التي تتسرب من بين الغيوم الراكضة في خريف ضيعتنا."

-حنين الصايغ

"To the sympathetic a masterpiece becomes a living reality which we feel drawn in bonds of comradeship. The masters are immortal, for their loves and fears live in us over and over again."

-Okakura Tenshin

"It didn't much matter which system of thought a man chose to identify himself with, so long as he kept his heart calm, in which case everything would naturally work itself out for the best."

-Amenomori Hōshū

" الحب هو أن نتجاذب كرة النار لا ان نتقاذفها."

-حنين الصايغ

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead."

-Bertrand Russell

"Life begins, on the other side of despair."

-Sartre

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"وفي رحيل النور
وُلِدَ نورٌ في قلب الإنسان
لا يُطفأ"

-نصير شمه

-John Hearne, The Lost Country

"But it shimmers, it does not stop, and I think it wants me.
I would not mind if it were bones, or a pearl button.

I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year.
After all I am alive only by accident.

I would have killed myself gladly that time any possible way.
Now there are these veils, shimmering like curtains,"

-Sylvia Plath, A Birthday Present

"Deep down I wanted some kind of change. Any change, whether good or bad, would be better than the state of impasse I was in now."

-Sayaka Murata

"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S Lewis

-C.S Lewis, A Grief observed