Abdullah Salam

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road