“عارف إنت مشكلتك إيه ؟.. إنك مش عارف إنت عاوز إيه .. حتى كلمة بحبك مش خارجة منك.. بتاخف منها يا برج الدلو.. بتخاف حد يشوف مشاعرك.. شوف بقالنا قد إيه مع بعض وعمرك ما قلت اللي جواك.. مع إنه طافح في عينيك.. بتخاف حتى من نفسك .. عاوزنى أفضل قريبة.. بس مش قريبة أوي”
― تراب الماس
― تراب الماس
“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”
― The Time Keeper
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”
― The Time Keeper
“We all know, however, that the enormous weight of tradition, habit, and custom that occupies the greater part of our brain bears down pitilessly on the more brilliant and innovative ideas of which the remaining part is capable, and although it is true that, in some cases, this weight can balance the excesses and extravagances of the imagination that would lead us God knows where were they given free rein, it is equally true that it often has a way of subtly submitting what we believed to be our free will to unconscious tropisms, like a plant that does not know why it will always have to lean toward the side from which the light comes.”
― The Double
― The Double
“Give time time.”
― Brida
― Brida
“I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.”
― Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
― Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
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