Correspondence Quotes

“you abandon yourself
in a cavity of pain
a butterfly in
a hurricane: vital,
fragile and obscene”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“my muse is absent and my
days are already condemned
before they begin”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“how can you love me
when my touch is like
ice so cold it burns?”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“i fear as much the long, slow
suffering as the
thunderous, sudden
end”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“and do remember:
i have bathed in rivers of
darkness and lived in
houses fit for death
at the edge of life”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“i look like a yellow child
of the sun dumped into this
world walking towards
the crusade of myself that
starts at your feet and
ends maybe in the next world”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“show me the city
that does not mourn its fallen
whose pillars embrace
white coffins and freeze
time and distort space”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“the best places aren’t easy
to see; instead of
following light one
must follow silence”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“i like to believe in a
forbidden eternity
where such sacred dreams
run to”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“i am blessed with grief
and blessed with sorrow
and with the gift of living”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“i offer you god
whose ubiquitous presence
you will not take lightly in
hazardous moments
or chance encounters:
that is where he appears”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“and life was not what it was ⸺
life was not a selfish dream”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence