Ghayth Lattouf

“I have had choices since the day that I was born. There were voices that told me right from wrong. If I had listened, then I wouldn't be here today, living and dying with the choices I have made”
― Billy Yates

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“I have found that the Iron is a great cure for loneliness. Loneliness is a desire for what is not there with you. You can be lonely for an infinite number of things-people, feelings— whatever creates a void in your life with its absence. Sometimes your loneliness has nothing to attach itself to. You're just lonely, flat out. The Iron can pull you through when all else fails. You'll find that it was you that got you through. Loneliness”
― Henry Rollins, Do I Come Here Often?

“The world breaks everyone and afterward
many are strong at the broken places. But
those that will not break it kills. It kills the very
good and the very gentle and the very brave
impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees