Inji

“To a parent, your child wasn't just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all at the same time. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Does writing poetry make you brave? It is a good question to ask. I think making anything is a brave thing to do. Not like fighting brave”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“غمض عينيك و ارقص بخفة و دلع
الدنيا هي الشابة و انت الــــــــجدع
تشوف رشاقة خطوتك تعبــــــــدك
لكن انت لو بصيت لرجليك ....تـقع

عجبي !!”
― صلاح جاهين, رباعيات صلاح جاهين

“Home is where your absence is felt, the echo of your voice kept alive, no matter how long you have been away or how far you may have strayed, a place that still beats with the pulse of your heart.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky