The Nectar of Pain Quotes

“I broke my soul trying to mend yours.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You were my home
for so long.
Now I realize that humans
cannot
be homes.
If homes can leave,
then they are not
homes.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Broken wings are a sign of struggle. And strength.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“My heart aches in
corners
I did not know
existed.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I fell in love with you
the day you showed me your soul.
And I spent days,
months,
and a year and
part of a year
realizing that you covered
your soul again
because you could not handle
the love
that I was touching you
with.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You love too hard,"
he said.
"It's the only way to love,"
I replied.

I am tired of
every person coming my way
telling me that I am too
needy for love.
I am not needy
for love.
I just love.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Life is not fair,
but
we can choose to be
fair humans
even if life
or other humans
choose to be
unfair
to us.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I spent more time getting
over you
than I spent
falling in love with you.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“To you,
it is much easier
to not say a word.
To me,
I choke on my words
if I do not say them.

What truly hurts me
is that you know
that your silence
infects a storm in my mind
yet you choose it
oh so
easily.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You will tell me that you wish
I would give you another chance.
And I will tell you that I wished
you never walked away
when you walked away.
But you still walked away.
You will tell me that you were not
yourself when you walked away.
And I will tell you that I was not
myself when I thought that
you were the one.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Stop dwelling in the past.
No, you could not have known
better.
No, you would not do things differently
if you went back.
No, they would not have
treated you differently if
you had acted,
looked, or
cared differently.
They are who they are regardless of
who you are.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You may be a disaster for a day, a month, or a year. Just don't be a disaster forever.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“We had a moment once when I felt that we were one, in the same feeling, in the same soul. But I've come to learn that these moments can imprison us for years when they were only moments followed by many more that were not the same.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I thought that I needed your apology to
move on.
I really needed to forgive myself
first.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“If you gave them
once
the love that they did not
deserve,
they will come back for more.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“He never loved you, but he loved
the reflection of the man he saw in your
eyes.
But listen to me, my friend.
You never loved him either.
You just loved being the queen.
You loved being the sun.
You loved being the woman behind a
great man.
You never loved him.
You loved having something to give.
Someone to fix. Someone to please.
You see, in love, you don't get what you
want.
You get what you think you get.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Letting go does not mean
that you are
giving up
ir that you are
weak.
It could just mean that
you are no longer
allowing what hurts you
to control you.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“The moments that you choose to be
silent
when someone's soul is
screaming at you,
begging you to say,
"My heart is with you,"
those moments leave
scars on our souls
that no amount of excuses can
erase.
If you love someone,
you love them.
You don't allow your pride to
stop you from expressing your love
to them.
If you expect them to understand
your love through silence,
don't be surprised when their soul
slips out of your hands in silence.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Keep your heart beautiful.
The world needs that.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I may have been successfull at giving,
but I never know when to stop.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“They do everything to
dim
your light,
and then they ask you why
you’re not shining.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“If you ever come back, I will tell you:

The sun is closer to you
than I will ever be.
So burn,
if you wish.
You will not
see the shadow of me
even if you become
the sun
yourself.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You see, in love, you don’t get what you want.
You get what you think you get.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I felt so lucky that a man like you
wanted me in a kingdom like yours.
And when the gates opened and I entered inside,
I saw nothing that pleases the eye.
You see, you worked so hard to build your fort,
but forgot to tidy what's inside.
The years had tainted your every corner
with the torture that you inflicted on
every visitor.
And now I look back and think
what a fool you were to think
that you could conquer a queen's kingdom like mine.
What a fool.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You came to me with
broken wings.
I helped you heal your
wounds
by pouring love into the
broken pieces of
your soul.
You flew away
when your wings were healed.
You left me here,
chained to the ground,
trying to remove the shards
that got stuck in my own wings
as I took them out of yours.

Where did gratefulness
go?
I will not let your deception
make me not want to help more
broken wings out there.
Your lack of gratitude
will not make me
not give.
I do not give just to
be thanked.
But it does not mean that
it does not hurt.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Do you know what it feels like to be wounded
and told that you caused the
wound to yourself by choosing to be
where
the harm landed?”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“You say that I mean ⁣
nothing ⁣
to you, ⁣
but you search for my eyes ⁣
in the face of every woman ⁣
you meet. ⁣
You search for my warmth ⁣
in the soul of every woman ⁣
you seek. ⁣
You think that ⁣
if time and circumstance ⁣
forced you to force me ⁣
out of your life, ⁣
that time and circumstance ⁣
owe you ⁣
a woman like me. ⁣
Search, my darling. ⁣
Search. ⁣
I do not come ⁣
twice ⁣
in the eternity that passed⁣
nor in the one to come.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“-Part 2- Worry not about the future. You might not go there. Live not in the past. Its doors are locked. Its keys are in the skies. But remember this: Your heart is a castle.
Guard it with a cage of gold. Only he who is destined to enter it will seek the key. Your mind is a kingdom of grace. Keep its gates high and mighty. Keep it guarded with your faith. Befriend silence. It never betrays you. You are the master of your journey. You are the owner of your path. You are a bird, but unless you fly, you are not free. Only after your wings are broken will you realize that freedom is in your hands. So be free.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I loved the person that you once
were,
not the person that you are today.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“Please don’t make me
grieve you
while you’re still alive.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain