Hareem Dar

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore