Mena Asaad

“والصبي الحساس الذي يشعر كثيراً ويعرف قليلاً هو أتعس المخلوقات أمام وجه الشمس لأن نفسه تظل واقفة بين قوتين هائلتين متباينتين: قوة خفية تحلق به إلى السحاب وتريه محاسن الكائنات من وراء ضباب الأحلام، وقوة ظاهرة تقيده بالأرض وتغمر بصيرته بالغبار وتتركه ضائعاً خائفاً في ظلمة حالكة.”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84