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"ولكنها مازالت غريبة على كل الأشياء، فلا تكاد تتعلق بشيء ، ولا تفضل شيئا ، ولا تميل لشيئ ، ولا تشتهي شيئا ..أو أنها لا تقول. حالة إنسانية ابدع محمد علوان في صياغتها استوقفتني كثيرا ...مستمتعة جداً بقراءتها" — Dec 12, 2013 01:26PM
"ولكنها مازالت غريبة على كل الأشياء، فلا تكاد تتعلق بشيء ، ولا تفضل شيئا ، ولا تميل لشيئ ، ولا تشتهي شيئا ..أو أنها لا تقول. حالة إنسانية ابدع محمد علوان في صياغتها استوقفتني كثيرا ...مستمتعة جداً بقراءتها" — Dec 12, 2013 01:26PM
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.”
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“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light.”
― The Shape of Water
― The Shape of Water
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