Eva Khalil > Eva's Quotes

“I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouthful of forevers. We
have both known loss like the sharp edges
of a knife. We have both lived with lips
more scar tissue than skin. Our love came
unannounced in the middle of the night.
Our love came when we’d given up
on asking love to come. I think
that has to be part
of its miracle.
This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.

And I will not be afraid
of your scars.

I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
― Clementine von Radics

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
― Georges Bataille

“he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“It's still there, you know? All the love, it's still right there underneath my ribs, begging you to pull them back one by one and crawl inside.”
― Moriah Pearson

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.”
― Sara Zarr, How to Save a Life

“the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.”
― Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
― Anne Sexton

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

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

“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“لماذا وُلِدتُ بين المرايا؟
اليومُ يدورُ من حولي
والليلُ يصنعُ نسخاً مني
في كل النجمات.

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أريد العيشَ دون رؤية نفسي
وسوف أحلم بأن النملَ
وأن الشوك
صارا أغصاني وطيوري”
― فدريكو جارسيا لوركا / Federico Garcia Lorca

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.”
― Antonin Artaud, Lettres à Génica Athanasiou

“لكي تكوني سعيدة معه يجب أن تفهميه كثيرا وتحبيه قليلا‏,‏ ولكي تكون سعيدا معها يجب أن تحبها كثيرا ولا تحاول فهمها ابدا”
― أنيس منصور

“الحب الحقيقى: أن تحب الشخص الوحيد القادر أن يجعلك تعيسا”
― أنيس منصور

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to”
― Margaret Laurence, The Diviners

“To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“استرجون : نولد مجانين كلنا ولكن البعض يستمر فى ذلك”
― فى انتظار جودو .. صمويل بيكيت

“الجوع يتغذى على الخوف / خوف الصمت يدوي في الشوارع / الخوف يهدد:/ إذا أحببت ، تصاب بالإيدز / إذا دخنت ، تصب بالسرطان / إذا تنفست ، تتلوث / إذا شربت ، تحصل على حوادث / إذا أكلت ، ترتفع فيك نسبة الكولسترول / إذا عبرت عن نفسك ، تسرح ، إذا سرت ، تسرق / إذا فكرت ، تقلق / إذا شككت ، تجن / إذا شعرت ، تعاني من الوحدة”
― إدواردو غاليانو

“I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems