Hajar

“من الرائع أن تعرف المرأة أن لها رجل ما، رجل تستطيع أن تلجأ إليه إذا ضاقت بها الدنيا، تثق أنه لن يقابل شكواها بالضجر أو بالتشفي أو القسوة.
والأروع من كل هذا، أنه اختار أن يكون هذا الرجل، اختار بكل حب أن يكون ملاذها.. حصنها وأمانها.
ملاذي الحبيب، وحصني الذي لم أشعر قبله بأمان: أشكرك. أشكرك لأنك اخترت أن تكون هذا الرجل. لأنك دائمًا هنا، تمنحني الضوء في أكثر ليالي حياتي عتمة وتمنحني الدفء حين يشتد الصقيع.”
― سارة درويش, زوجي مازال حبيبي

“I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“لا تسيري مع التيار، بل كوني أنتِ التيار.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love