Bahira

“The shroud itself became a story almost instantly. 'Penelope's web', it was called; people used to say that of any task that remained mysteriously unfinished. I did not appreciate the term web. If the shroud was a web, then I was a spider. But I had not been attempting to catch men like flies: on the contrary, I'd merely been trying to avoid entanglement myself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.”
― Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Elif Shafak, The Architect's Apprentice

“أنا من هذا النوع من النساء الذي يبقى ببساطة أو يمضي ببساطة. فإذا ما بقي يكون ارتباطه جدياً. و أما إذا ما مضى فهو لن يعود.”
― كوليت خوري