Meryem Ouzzarg

“When the body perishes
all perishes
but the threads of memory
are woven of enduring atoms
I will pick these particles
weave the threads
and I will meet you yet again.”
― Amrita Pritam, ਮੈਂ ਤੇਨੁ ਫੇਰ ਮਿਲੰਗੀ

“You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“The biggest mistake we make is that we build our homes in other people. We build those homes and we decorate them with the love and care and respect that makes us feel safe at the end of the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our self-worth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what many don’t realize is that when you build your home in other people, you give them the power to make you homeless. When those people walk away, those homes walk away with them, and all of a sudden, we feel empty because everything that we had within us, we put into them. We trusted someone else with pieces of us. The emptiness we feel doesn’t mean we have nothing to give, or that we have nothing within us. It’s just that we built our home in the wrong place.”
― Najwa Zebian, Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul

“Quand on a perdu un être cher, on peut fermer son cœur, ou bien utiliser ce silex de la peine qui le déchire pour l'ouvrir davantage encore. On aime encore plus intensément, et plus profondément, lorsque la douleur a creusé et agrandi notre cœur.”
― Frédéric Lenoir