Shaden

“أتلمَّس أحوالي منذ وُلدتُ إلى اليوم
وفي يأسي أتذكر..
أن هناك حياةً بعد الموتِ
هناك حياة بعد الموت
ولا مشكلة لدي
لكني اسأل: يا الله.. أهناك حياة قبل الموت؟”
― مريد البرغوثي

“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
― Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

“You know how it feels when you're someplace and you ask yourself, Why am I here? That's how it is with me all the time. I can't wait to leave. To go from wherever I am to some other place. It never ends.”
― Etgar Keret, The Girl on the Fridge