Mohammed Mersal

“You still don't like me?" he asked, his voice hoarse.
"No," she said, trying her best to sound convincing.
"I can live with that," he said smiling.”
― Zøe Haslie, Just For A While

“She’s got to be a ghost. First of all, she’s just too beautiful. Her features are gorgeous, but it’s not only that. She’s so perfect I know she can’t be real. She’s like a person who stepped right out of a dream. The purity of her beauty gives me a feeling close to sadness –a very natural feeling, though one that only something extraordinary could produce.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You do not enter a race to lose”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. I opened the back window and smelled the rain. You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. I closed my eyes. I held my hand out and felt the first drop. It was like a kiss. The sky was kissing me. It was a nice thought. It was something Dante would have thought. I felt another drop and then another. A kiss. A kiss. And then another kiss.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe