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“Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just distant, foggy memories. My past life would be but a dream, and I could start over without regrets, bolstered by the bliss and serenity that I would have accumulated in my year of rest and relaxation.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Tell me where it hurts, she'd say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”
― Margaret Atwood

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought, I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. To stop with the German tribes and rest awhile: But no! On, on, on. Through ages of empires, of decline and fall. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“هذا البحرُ لي

هذا الهواءُ الرَّطْبُ لي

هذا الرصيفُ وما عَلَيْهِ

من خُطَايَ وسائلي المنويِّ … لي

ومحطَّةُ الباصِ القديمةُ لي . ولي

شَبَحي وصاحبُهُ . وآنيةُ النحاس

وآيةُ الكرسيّ ، والمفتاحُ لي

والبابُ والحُرَّاسُ والأجراسُ لي

لِيَ حَذْوَةُ الفَرَسِ التي

طارت عن الأسوار … لي

ما كان لي . وقصاصَةُ الوَرَقِ التي

انتُزِعَتْ من الإنجيل لي

والملْحُ من أَثر الدموع على

جدار البيت لي …

واسمي ، إن أخطأتُ لَفْظَ اسمي

بخمسة أَحْرُفٍ أُفُقيّةِ التكوين لي :

ميمُ / المُتَيَّمُ والمُيتَّمُ والمتمِّمُ ما مضى

حاءُ / الحديقةُ والحبيبةُ ، حيرتانِ وحسرتان

ميمُ / المُغَامِرُ والمُعَدُّ المُسْتَعدُّ لموته

الموعود منفيّاً ، مريضَ المُشْتَهَى

واو / الوداعُ ، الوردةُ الوسطى ،

ولاءٌ للولادة أَينما وُجدَتْ ، وَوَعْدُ الوالدين

دال / الدليلُ ، الدربُ ، دمعةُ

دارةٍ دَرَسَتْ ، ودوريّ يُدَلِّلُني ويُدْميني /

وهذا الاسمُ لي …

ولأصدقائي ، أينما كانوا ، ولي

جَسَدي المُؤَقَّتُ ، حاضراً أم غائباً …

مِتْرانِ من هذا التراب سيكفيان الآن …

لي مِتْرٌ و75 سنتمتراً …

والباقي لِزَهْرٍ فَوْضَويّ اللونِ ،

يشربني على مَهَلٍ ، ولي

ما كان لي : أَمسي ، وما سيكون لي

غَدِيَ البعيدُ ، وعودة الروح الشريد

كأنَّ شيئا ً لم يَكُنْ

وكأنَّ شيئاً لم يكن

جرحٌ طفيف في ذراع الحاضر العَبَثيِّ …

والتاريخُ يسخر من ضحاياهُ

ومن أَبطالِهِ …

يُلْقي عليهمْ نظرةً ويمرُّ …

هذا البحرُ لي

هذا الهواءُ الرَّطْبُ لي

واسمي -

وإن أخطأتُ لفظ اسمي على التابوت -

لي .

أَما أَنا - وقد امتلأتُ

بكُلِّ أَسباب الرحيل -

فلستُ لي .

أَنا لَستُ لي

أَنا لَستُ لي”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.”
― Brian A. McBride, Dominion

“I was alone. I had no one. No mother, no father, no brothers, no sisters, no grandmas, no grandpas, no uncles, no aunties, no cousins, and no tribe. I’d seen the children at the orphanage laugh or cry when they received news about a family member. I would never receive such news and no family would laugh or cry for me. That day I understood with sharp clarity that I didn’t have a mother who wanted me.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child