Bonita

“إن الشيوخ يرجعون بالفكر إلى أيام شبابهم رجوع الغريب المشتاق إلى مسقط رأسه، ويميلون إلى سرد حكايات الصبا ميل الشاعر إلى تنغيم أبلغ قصائده، فهم يعيشون بالروح في زوايا الماضي الغابر؛ لأن الحاضر لا يمر بهم ولا يلتفت، والمستقبل يبدو لأعينهم متشحًا بضباب الزوال وظلمة القبر.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The day he died, he wanted me to make him some chocolate chip cookies. They were his favorite. But I was too busy.” She frowns a little and looks down at her hands. She has matching blue gloves. “He wasn’t mad. He was always so easygoing, nothing ever got him riled up, and if it did, I knew it was serious. Now I wish I had made him the cookies.”
― Mary Frame, Anything But Extraordinary

“خرجت شاعرًا بأن تلك الليلة التي وُلدت فيها ثانية هي الليلة التي لمحت فيها وجه الموت لأول مرة.”
― Kahlil Gibran, الأجنحة المتكسرة

“For beauty, starv’d with her severity, Cuts beauty off from all posterity. She is too fair, too wise; wisely too fair, To merit bliss by making me despair. She hath forsworn to love; and in that vow 220 Do I live dead that live to tell it now.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet