Fatma Mahmoud

“He'd forgotten the most important condition that made it possible for him to go on living: that he should never again grow fond of anyone”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

“So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“A part of her wanted to stop pushing herself, stop feeling compelled to rise to the occasion of being her best self. She wanted to figure out how to be her average self without feeling like a loser.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

“يقل حديث الأزواج مع بعضهم البعض لأن عشقهما يتحول إلى حب هادئ. العشق كالسفينة في بحر هائج وهذا يدفع ركابها للحديث مع بعض لينسوا خوفهم وطرقات قلبهم، يحكون قصصا ليقولوا للآخر أنهم قريبون منه، بينما الحب زورق في مياه هادئة، قد تكون عميقة ومليئة بالأخطار لكن ركاب الزورق يغطون في نوم عميق ولا يشعرون بحاجة للكلام.”
― رفيق شامي