“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”
― Twenty-One Love Poems.
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”
― Twenty-One Love Poems.
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
― Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
― Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.”
― The Salt Eaters
― The Salt Eaters
“أي انسان يموت ،لاينتهي بنظر الذين يحبونه إلاَّ اذا غسلوه بالدموع ، الدموع هي ذرات التراب الأخيرة التي تجلّل الميت وتقول انه انتهى .”
― شرق المتوسط
― شرق المتوسط
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
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