Suzan Koppen

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

“Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.”
― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations

“لتعلَمي أنني لا أحبك وأني أحبك، / لأن لكل ما هو حيّ وجهين؛ / الكلمة هي إحدى جناحي الصمت، / وللنار شطرُها البارد”
― بابلو نيرودا