Ramy Mostafa

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“ألا إنما الإنسان من الأقدار كالنبات بين الفأس التي تَحرثُ له والمِنْجَلِ الذي يحصد فيه، وما هذه الدنيا إلا هذان، فلا يحسبنَّ العودُ الطالع أنه شيءٌ غيرُ هذا العود المقطوع”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea