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“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“to do list (after the breakup)
1. take refuge in your bed
2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a few days).
3. don’t listen to slow songs.
4. delete their number from your phone even though it is memorized on your fingertips.
5. don’t look at old photos.
6. find the closest ice cream shop and treat yourself to two scoops of mint chocolate chip. the mint will calm your heart. you deserve the chocolate.
7. buy new bed sheets.
8. collect all the gifts, t-shirts, and everything with their smell on it and drop it off at a donation center.
9. plan a trip.
10. perfect the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.
11. start a new project.
12. whatever you do. do not call.
13. do not beg for what does not want to stay.
14. stop crying at some point.
15. allow yourself to feel foolish for believing you could’ve built the rest of your life in someone else’s stomach.
16. breathe.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette

“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this point, we can choose let go and endure the intense pain of leaving behind the familiar to make way for a new chapter in our life. Or we can stay and suffer a low-grade pain that slowly eats away at our heart and soul, like an emotional cancer. Until we wake up, one day and realize, we are buried so deep in the dysfunction of the relationship that we scarcely remember who we were and what we wanted and needed to be.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“أرَاكَ عَصِيَّ الدّمعِ شِيمَتُكَ الصّبرُ، أما للهوى نهيٌّ عليكَ ولا أمرُ ؟
بلى أنا مشتاقٌ وعنديَ لوعة ٌ ، ولكنَّ مثلي لا يذاعُ لهُ سرُّ !
إذا الليلُ أضواني بسطتُ يدَ الهوى وأذللتُ دمعاً منْ خلائقهُ الكبرُ
تَكادُ تُضِيءُ النّارُ بينَ جَوَانِحِي إذا هيَ أذْكَتْهَا الصّبَابَة ُ والفِكْرُ
معللتي بالوصلِ ، والموتُ دونهُ ، إذا مِتّ ظَمْآناً فَلا نَزَل القَطْرُ!
حفظتُ وضيعتِ المودة َ بيننا و أحسنَ ، منْ بعضِ الوفاءِ لكِ ، العذرُ
و ما هذهِ الأيامُ إلا صحائفٌ لأحرفها ، من كفِّ كاتبها بشرُ
بنَفسي مِنَ الغَادِينَ في الحَيّ غَادَة ً هوايَ لها ذنبٌ ، وبهجتها عذرُ
تَرُوغُ إلى الوَاشِينَ فيّ، وإنّ لي لأذْناً بهَا، عَنْ كُلّ وَاشِيَة ٍ، وَقرُ
بدوتُ ، وأهلي حاضرونَ ، لأنني أرى أنَّ داراً ، لستِ من أهلها ، قفرُ
وَحَارَبْتُ قَوْمي في هَوَاكِ، وإنّهُمْ وإيايَ ، لولا حبكِ ، الماءُ والخمرُ
فإنْ كانَ ما قالَ الوشاة ُ ولمْ يكنْ فَقَد يَهدِمُ الإيمانُ مَا شَيّدَ الكُفرُ
وفيتُ ، وفي بعضِ الوفاءِ مذلة ٌ لآنسة ٍ في الحي شيمتها الغدرُ
وَقُورٌ، وَرَيْعَانُ الصِّبَا يَسْتَفِزّها، فتأرنُ ، أحياناً ، كما يأرنُ المهرُ
تسائلني: " منْ أنتَ ؟ " ، وهي عليمة ٌ ، وَهَلْ بِفَتى ً مِثْلي عَلى حَالِهِ نُكرُ؟
فقلتُ ، كما شاءتْ ، وشاءَ لها الهوى : قَتِيلُكِ! قالَتْ: أيّهُمْ؟ فهُمُ كُثرُ
فقلتُ لها: " لو شئتِ لمْ تتعنتي ، وَلمْ تَسألي عَني وَعِنْدَكِ بي خُبرُ!
فقالتْ: " لقد أزرى بكَ الدهرُ بعدنا! فقلتُ: "معاذَ اللهِ! بلْ أنت لاِ الدهرُ،
وَما كانَ للأحزَانِ، لَوْلاكِ، مَسلَكٌ إلى القلبِ؛ لكنَّ الهوى للبلى جسرُ
وَتَهْلِكُ بَينَ الهَزْلِ والجِدّ مُهجَة ٌ إذا مَا عَداها البَينُ عَذّبَها الهَجْرُ
فأيقنتُ أنْ لا عزَّ ، بعدي ، لعاشقٍ ؛ وَأنُّ يَدِي مِمّا عَلِقْتُ بِهِ صِفْرُ
وقلبتُ أمري لا أرى لي راحة ً ، إذا البَينُ أنْسَاني ألَحّ بيَ الهَجْرُ
فَعُدْتُ إلى حكمِ الزّمانِ وَحكمِها، لَهَا الذّنْبُ لا تُجْزَى به وَليَ العُذْرُ
كَأني أُنَادي دُونَ مَيْثَاءَ ظَبْيَة ً على شرفٍ ظمياءَ جللها الذعرُ
تجفَّلُ حيناً ، ثم تدنو كأنما تنادي طلا ـ، بالوادِ ، أعجزهُ الحضرُ
فلا تنكريني ، يابنة َ العمِّ ، إنهُ ليَعرِفُ مَن أنكَرْتِهِ البَدْوُ وَالحَضْرُ
ولا تنكريني ، إنني غيرُ منكرٍ إذا زلتِ الأقدامِ ؛ واستنزلَ النضرُ
وإني لجرارٌ لكلِّ كتيبة ٍ معودة ٍ أنْ لا يخلَّ بها النصرُ
و إني لنزالٌ بكلِّ مخوفة ٍ كثيرٌ إلى نزالها النظرُ الشزرُ
فَأَظمأُ حتى تَرْتَوي البِيضُ وَالقَنَا وَأسْغَبُ حتى يَشبَعَ الذّئبُ وَ”
― أبو فراس الحمداني

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.”
― Colette

“Hope costs nothing. ”
― Colette

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”
― Collette, Chéri

“Music is love in search of a word.”
― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“if you are unwilling to change, do not enter into philosophical arguments”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“فعندما نغرم ببعضنا بعضا، نحول الشخص الآخر إلى إله، يا لخطورة هذا الأمر. وحين لا يبادلنا الحب، نرد عليه بالغضب والامتغاص والكراهية...
- ثمة شيء في الحب يشبه الإيمان. نوع من الثقة العمياء. أليس كذلك؟ الشعور بالنشوة وطعم السعادة، سحر الارتباط بمخلوق خارج نفوسنا المحدودة والمألوفة. لكن إذا جرفنا الحب - أو الإيمان - فإنه يتحول إلى عقيدة، إالى تعلق، وتتحول العذوبة الى حموضة، ونعاني بين أيدي الآلهة التي خلقناها بأنفسنا.”
― Elif Shafak, Three Daughters of Eve

“In many parts of the world you were what you said and what you did and, also, what you read; in Turkey, as in all countries haunted by questions of identity, you were, primarily, what you rejected. It seemed that the more people went on about an author, the less likely it was that they had read their books.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“في مختلف أرجاء العالم، تتحدد هويتك بما أنت عليه وما فعلته وما قرأته أيضاً، أما في تركيا، كما هو شأن البلدان المسكونة بأسئلة تخص الهوية، فإن هويتك تحدد أساسًا بما ترفضه.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“الإيمان حب لللامنظور، وثقة فى المستحيل وبغير المحتمل.”
― يوهان فولفغانغ فون غوته, مختارات شعرية ونثرية

“من لا يعرف وطنه، فليس له من مقياس يقيس به البلدان الأجنبية.”
― يوهان فولفغانغ فون غوته, مختارات شعرية ونثرية