Ghada

“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“دائما أنتِ في المنتصف!
أنتِ بيني وبين كتابي ..
بيني وبين فراشي ..
وبيني وبين هدوئي ..
وبيني وبين الكلام!
ذكرياتك سجني وصوتك يجلدني
وأنا بين الشوارع وحدي
وبين المصابيح وحدي!
أتصبب بالحزن بين قميصي وجلدي!
ودمي: قطرة -بين عينيكِ- ليست تجف!
فامنحيني السلام!
امنحيني السلام!”
― أمل دنقل

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
― Alice Walker