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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
“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― 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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“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
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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