Seif Borgi

“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“people always say that “a joy shared is a joy doubled,” we seem to insist on believing that the opposite is true of sorrow. Perhaps that isn’t actually the case. Two drowning people with lead weights around their ankles may not be each other’s salvation; if they hold hands, they’ll just sink twice as fast. In the end the weight of carrying each other’s broken hearts becomes unbearable.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“But for me to remember my hurt, Nastenka. For me to chase a black cloud over your bright untroubled happiness. For me to put sadness into your heart with a bitter reproach, to sting it with secret remorse and make it beat mournfully at the moment of bliss. To rumple at least one of these delicate flowers you'd woven into your black curls when you went to the alter with him.. Oh never, never! May your sky be clear, may your dear smile be bright and carefree, and may you be blessed for the moment of enjoyment and happiness you'd given to another lonely and grateful heart. My god, a moment of bliss, is that too little for an entire human life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights