Salma Osman

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“بسم والينا المبجّل…
قرروا شنق الذي اغتال أخي
لكنه كان قصيراً
فمضى الجلاد يسأل…: رأسه لا يصل الحبل
فماذا سوف أفعل ؟… بعد تفكير عميق
أمر الوالي بشنقي بدلاً منه
لأني كنت أطول…”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen