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“My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“But I'm gay. GAY. Gaaaaaaaayyyyy.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Achilles was looking at me. “Your hair never quite lies flat, here.” He touched my head, just behind my ear. “I don’t think I’ve ever told you how I like it.”

My scalp prickled where his fingers had been. “You haven’t,” I said.

“I should have.” His hand drifted down to the vee at the base of my throat, drew softly across the pulse. “What about this? Have I told you what I think of this, just here?”

“No,” I said.

“This surely then.” His hand moved across the muscles of my chest; my skin warmed beneath it. “Have I told you of this?”

“That you have told me.” My breath caught a little as I spoke.

“And what of this?” His hand lingered over my hips, drew down the line of my thigh. “Have I spoken of it?”

“You have.”

“And this? Surely I would not have forgotten this.” His cat’s smile. “Tell me I did not.”

“You did not.”

“There is this too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

I closed my eyes. “Tell me again,” I said.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet.”
“How do you do that?’
“Do what?”
“Say things like that. That’s beautiful.”
“I’ve spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It’s in my DNA.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Redemption

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You see the sun?—I built that.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“The axiom of the empty set is the axiom of zero. It states that there must be a concept of nothingness, that there must be the concept of zero: zero value, zero items. . . . We can say that life is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero. We know that both states exist, but we will not be conscious of either experience: they are states that are necessary parts of life, even as they cannot be experienced as life. We assume the concept of nothingness, but we cannot prove it. But it must exist.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“زهور

وسلالٌ منَ الورِد
ألمحُها بينَ إغفاءةٍ وإفاقه
وعلى كلِّ باقةٍ
اسمُ حامِلِها في بِطاقه
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تَتَحدثُ لي الزَهراتُ الجميلهْ
أن أَعيُنَها اتَّسَعَتْ - دهشةً -
َلحظةَ القَطْف,
َلحظةَ القَصْف,
لحظة إعدامها في الخميلهْ!
تَتَحدثُ لي..
أَنها سَقَطتْ منْ على عرشِها في البسَاتين
ثم أَفَاقَتْ على عَرْضِها في زُجاجِ الدكاكينِ, أو بينَ أيدي المُنادين,
حتى اشترَتْها اليدُ المتَفضِّلةُ العابِرهْ
تَتَحدثُ لي..
كيف جاءتْ إليّ..
(وأحزانُها الملَكيةُ ترفع أعناقَها الخضْرَ)
كي تَتَمني ليَ العُمرَ!
وهي تجودُ بأنفاسِها الآخرهْ!!
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كلُّ باقهْ..
بينَ إغماءة وإفاقهْ
تتنفسُ مِثلِىَ - بالكادِ - ثانيةً.. ثانيهْ
وعلى صدرِها حمَلتْ - راضيهْ...
اسمَ قاتِلها في بطاقهْ!”
― أمل دنقل, أوراق الغرفة 8