Shereen ammar

“In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities—it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.”
― Maureen Brady

“There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.”
― Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“الحريّة أريح من الحب راحة الهائم الخاوي، ولكن إلى متى؟
هل يكتفي الهواء بأن يكون هواء في مدى بلا بحر ولا نهر ولاشجر ولاكائنات؟”
― أنسي الحاج, خواتم

“The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult.”
― Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception