eureads

“I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.”
― Rumi

“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea