Eva Khalil

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“In human closeness there is a secret edge,
Nor love nor passion can pass it above,
Let lips with lips be joined in silent rage,
And hearts be burst asunder with the love.

And friendship, too, is powerless plot,
And so years of bliss with noble tends,
When your heart is free and known not,
The slow languor of the earthy sense.

And they who strive to reach this edge are mad,
But they who reached are shocked with anguish hard -
Now you know why beneath your hand
You do not feel the beating of my heart.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Conformist: A Novel

“هناك دائماً شخص يقف عند الهاوية, وعندما أقترب أنا من السقوط يرفع ذراعه ثم يصفعني بقوة, فأهرول بعيداً, بينما أهرول أسأله : ولماذا تركتني أصل إلى هذة النقطة؟ فيقول: لكي لا تعود أبداً!”
― عمر طاهر, إذاعة الأغاني: سيرة شخصية للغناء