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“أي شيء في العيد أهدي إليكِ؟...يا ملاكي وكل شيء لديكِ
أسواراً؟ أم دملجاً من نضارٍ...لا أحب القيود في معصميكِ
أم خموراً؟ وليس في الأرض خمر...كالذي تسكبين من عينيكِ
أم ورداً؟ وليس أجمل عندي...كالذي قد نشقت من خديكِ
أم عقيقاً كمهجتي يتلظى...والعقيق الثمين في شفتيك
ليس عندي شيء أعز من الروح...وروحي مرهونة بين يديكِ ”
― إيليا أبو ماضي, الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover