Noor

“I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.”
― Mathias Malzieu, La Mécanique du cœur

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“لاتقل لي : ليتني بائع خبز في الجزائر
لأغني مع ثائر !
لاتقل لي : ليتني راعي مواشٍ في اليمن
لأغني لانتفاضات الزمن !
لاتقل لي : ليتني عامل مقهى في هفانا
لأغني لانتصارات الحزانى !
لاتقل لي : ليتني أعمل في أسوان حمالاً صغير
لأغني للصخور
ياصديقي ! لن يصب النيل في الفولغا
ولا الكونغو ، ولا الأردن ، في نهر الفرات !
كل نهر ، وله نبع ..ومجرى ..وحياة!

ياصديقي !..أرضنا ليست بعاقر
كل أرض ، ولها ميلادها
كل فجر ، وله موعد ثائر!”
― محمود درويش

“I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in you eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.”
― Joan Didion