Lauren Hakimi

“The dell was to be left in solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Others made me a slave, but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince