Fatema Ibrahim > Fatema's Quotes

“أعدك أن أنام
غير أنى متعب
والمشقة فى قلبى لا فى الطريق
والعتم فى عينى
في سمعى
فى الأعوام التى توالت عاما بعد عام
ولم أر

أعدك أن أنام
أن أنتظر الصباح المقبل
وما يليه
لكنى مجبر علي الرحيل الآن،
لا عمل أو موعد أو نزهة أو أى
شىء من هذا القبيل
فأنا متعب وقد خدمت روحى ما استطعت”
― بسام حجار, مجرد تعب

“I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you”
― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

“لو سألني أحدكم ما هي علامات الحب وما شواهده. لقلت بلا تردد أن يكون القرب من المحبوب أشبه بالجلوس في التكييف يوم شديد الحرارة وأشبه باستشعار الدفء في يوم بارد. لقلت هي الألفة ورفع الكلفة وأن تجد نفسك في غير حاجة للكذب. وأن يرفع الحرج بينكما، فترى نفسك تتصرف بطبيعتك دون أن تحاول أن تكون شيئا آخر لتعجبها. وأن تصمتا انتما الآثنان فيحلو الصمت وأن يتكلم أحدكما فيحلو الأصغاء. وأن تكون الحياة معا مطلب كل منكما قبل النوم معا. وألا يطفىء الفراش هذه الأشواق ولا يورث الملل ولا الضجر وإنما يورث الراحة والمودة والصداقة. وأن تخلو العلاقة من التشنج والعصبية والعناد والكبرياء الفارغ والغيرة السخيفة والشك الأحمق والرغبة في التسلط، فكل هذه الأشياء من علامات الأنانية وليست من علامات حب الآخر. وان تكون السكينة والآمان والطمأنينية هي الحالة النفسية كلما التقيتما. وألا يطول بينكما العتاب ولا يجد أحدكما حاجة إلى اعتذار الاخر عند الخطأ، وانما تكون السماحة والعفو وحسن الفهم هي القاعدة. والا تشبع ايكما قبلة او عناق او اي مزاولة جنسية ولا تعود لكما راحة الا في الحياة معا والمسيرة معا و كفاح العمر معا. ذلك هو الحب حقا. لو سألتم أهو موجود ذلك الحب. وكيف نعثر عليه؟ لقلت نعم موجود ولكن نادر. وهو ثمرة توفيق إلهي وليس ثمرة اجتهاد شخصي. وهو نتيجة انسجام طبائع يكمل بعضها البعض الآخر ونفوس متآلفة متراحمة بالفطرة. وشرط حدوثه أن تكون النفوس خيرة أصلآ جميلة أصلا. والجمال النفسي والخير هو المشكاة التي يخرج منها هذا الحب.”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Hey Clark', he said.'Tell me something good'. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I placed my face so close to his that his features became indistict, and I began to lose myself in them. I stroked his hair, his skin, his brow, with my fingertips, tears sliding unchecked down my cheeks, my nose against his, and all the time he watched me silently, studying me intently as if he were storing each molecule of me away. He was already retreating withdrawing to somewhere I couldn't reach him.
I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to life.
I held him, Will Traynor ex-City whiz kid, ex-stunt diver, sportsman, traveller, lover. I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night..You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“جئتك من كل منافي العمر
أنام على نفسي من تعبي”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“إن من يحمل مصباحه خلف ظهره لا يرى غير ظله أمامه . طاغور”
― سعود السنعوسي, سجين المرايا

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“إن اللبن سائل ملهم.. ألا ترى هذا معي؟ ما إن تضعه على النار حتى تتداعى ذكرياتك.. وتخطر لك آلاف الأفكار العبقرية.. وتتذكر مواعيد لم تف بها.. ومكالمات هاتفية لم تجرها.. المهم أن كل شىء يدعوك لنسيان اللبن الذي على الموقد.. وتفيق لرشدك لتجد البركان الأبيض يثور بحممه.. وتدرك أنك تأخرت ثانيتين مصيريتين”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“لدي كتاب صغير
أكتب فيه حين أنساك
كتابٌ ذو غلافٍ أسود
لَم أخُطّ فيه كلمةً بعد”
― فرناندو بيسوا, رباعيات

“Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“عيناك غابتا نخيل ساعة السحر
أو شرفتان راح ينأى عنهما القمر
عيناك حين تبسمان تورق الكروم
وترقص الأضواء...كالأقمار في نهر
يرجه المجداف وهناً ساعة السحر
كأنما تنبض في غوريهما النجوم

وتغرقان في ضباب من أسى شفيف
كالبحر سرح اليدين فوقه المساء
دفء الشتاء فيه وارتعاشة الخريف
والموت والميلاد والظلام والضياء
فتستفيق ملء روحي رعشة البكاء
ونشوة وحشية تعانق السماء
كنشوة الطفل إذا خاف من القمر”
― بدر شاكر السياب