مُنيرَة

“You say you love the rain
but you open your umbrella.
You say you love the sun
but you find a shadow spot.
You say you love the wind
but you close your windows.

This is why I'm afraid when you say you love me.”
― William Shakespeare

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me