Fadwá

“When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“لاح الجمالُ لذي نُهى فأحبه

ورآه ذو جهلٍ فظنّ ورجما

لا تطلبنّ محبةً من جاهلٍ

المرءُ ليس يُحَبُّ حتى يُفهما

وارفقْ بأبناء الغباء كأنهم مرضى،

فإنّ الجهل شيءٌ كالعمى

والهُ بوردِ الروضِ عن أشواكه

وانسَ العقاربَ إن رأيت الأنجما”
― إيليا أبو ماضي, أجمل ما كتب شاعر الطلاسم

“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“هذه هي مهمة الفن:
أن نجمّل الحياة، حتى في أقبح صورها”
― محمد شكري, الشطار