Sarah

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I resolved that at 30 I would know more about poetry than any man living,
that I would know what was accounted poetry everywhere, what part of poetry
was "indestructible," what part could not be lost by translation and—scarcely less
important—what effects were obtainable in one language only and were utterly
incapable of being translated.”
― Ezra Pound, Collected Early Poems

“لو كان بي أن أَكْتُبَ إليك لأجدد عهدًا دارسًا أو ودًّا قديمًا ما كتبت سطرًا، ولا خططت حرفًا؛ لأني لا أعتقد أنَّ عهدًا مثل عهدك الغادر وودًّا مثل ودك الكاذب، يستحق أن أحفل به فأذكره، أو آسف عليه فأطلب تجديده.”
― المنفلوطى

“We learned to whisper almost without sound. In the semi-darkness we could stretch out our arms, when the Aunts weren't looking, and touch
each other's hands across space. We learned to lip-read, our heads flat on the beds, turned sideways, watching each other's mouths. In this way
we exchanged names, from bed to bed: Alma. Janine. Dolores. Moira. June.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments