Ester Ashraf

“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.”
― Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

“العالم ف قلبى مات
لكنى حين يكف المذياع .. وتنغلق الحجرات
اخرجه من قلبى و اسجيه فوق سريرى
اسقيه نبيذ الرغبة
فلعل الدفء يعود إلى الاطراف الباردة الصلبة
لكن تتفتت بشرته ف كفى
لا يتبقى سوى جمجمة وعظام !!
وأنام !!!!”
― أمل دنقل

“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
― Philip Roth, The Dying Animal