Megara

“O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“never believe a man can change a woman
those men are pretenders
who think
that they created women
from one of their ribs”
― Nizar Qabbani