Laleh

“وطن
میزی چوبی‌ست
که گردِ آن نشستیم و چای نوشیدیم
پیش از آنکه مأموران اداره‌ی مهاجرت ما را بیابند”
― الیاس علوی

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“نمی‌توان به لبخندی قانع بود
نمی‌شود موهایت را دید
و به باد حسودی نکرد
گونه‌هایت را دید
و به گناه نیاندیشید
و نمی‌شود به تو رسید
که پاهایت نوجوانند
و دیوارهایت بلند...

«من گرگ خیالبافی هستم»”
― الیاس علوی