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“دلم گرفته است
دلم گرفته است
به ایوان می روم و انگشتانم را
بر پوست کشیده ی شب می کشم
چراغ های رابطه تاریکند
چراغهای رابطه تاریکند
کسی مرا به آفتاب
معرفی نخواهد کرد
کسی مرا به میهمانی گنجشک ها نخواهد برد
پرواز را به خاطر بسپار
پرنده مردنی ست”
― فروغ فرخزاد / Forough Farrokhzad

“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees