Manel

“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“تقول: لماذا نحبّ، فنمشي على طُرُقٍ خاليةْ؟
أقول: لنقهر الموت كثيرا بموت أَقلّ
وننجو من الهاويةْ

تقول: لماذا حلمتُ بأني رأيت سُنوُنُوَّة ًفي يدي؟
أقول: لأنك في حاجةٍ لأَحدْ

تقول: لماذا تذكِّرني بغد لا أراه
معك؟
أقول: لأنك إحدى صفات الأبدْ

تقول: ستمضي إلى نَفَقِ الليل وحدك
بعدي
أقول: سأمضي إلى نفق الليل بعدك
.وحدي”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Almond Blossoms and Beyond

“I go out
to the pale dunes, to look over
the empty spaces
of the wilderness.
For something is there,
something is there when nothing is there but itself,
that is not there when anything else is.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“There will be a bird today. It will be white with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head. It will fly.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me