Roya Kadhem

“When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“They asked 'do you love her to death?' I said 'speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and Beyond