“لا تسيري مع التيار، بل كوني أنتِ التيار.”
― The Forty Rules of Love
― The Forty Rules of Love
“I once had a love who folded secrets between her thighs like napkins
and concealed memories in the valley of her breasts.
There was no match for the freckles on her chest,
and no one could mistake them for a field of honeysuckles.
Upon her lips, a thousand lies were spread in sweet gloss.
Her kiss was like a storybook from ancient history.
She was at home with the body of a man inside her, beside her.
At night, when she lay in bed crying,
no one could mistake the tears she wept for a summer shower
She is gone, my love. She was a wanderess, a wildflower.”
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and concealed memories in the valley of her breasts.
There was no match for the freckles on her chest,
and no one could mistake them for a field of honeysuckles.
Upon her lips, a thousand lies were spread in sweet gloss.
Her kiss was like a storybook from ancient history.
She was at home with the body of a man inside her, beside her.
At night, when she lay in bed crying,
no one could mistake the tears she wept for a summer shower
She is gone, my love. She was a wanderess, a wildflower.”
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“هي تترنم بأهازيج الغرام وأنا أبكم، هي تطارد وأنا شارد اللب، هي تحب وأنا كاره، هي حبلى وأنا عقيم، هي حساسة حذرة وأنا بليد، وقالت أنت لا تتكلم كعادتك فقلت: بل لا يُسمع لي صوت.”
― الشحاذ
― الشحاذ
“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
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“أما الأشجار فلا بأس من السقوط أمامها لأنها لا تضحك ، أو على الأقل تعرف كيف تداري ضحكها !!”
― ترانيم في ظل تمارا
― ترانيم في ظل تمارا
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