Aisyah

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.
Although I may try to describe love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless.
My pen breaks, and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi

“I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia—

— from a letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman, written 1951”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

“Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.”
― Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond

“So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love