Ragawii

“You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished business. Imagine going back: the structure is familiar ,but the door is now metal instead of wood,the walls have been painted a garish pink ,the easy chair you loved so much is gone .Your office is now the family room and your beloved bookcases have been replaced by a brand-new television set . This is your house,and it is not. And you are no longer relevant to this house , to its walls and doors and floors ; you are not seen .”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“أريد رجلا يحبني وهو يعلم أن الكثيرات أجمل مني وأذكى مني. رجلا يحبني لأن روحي امتزجت وروحه، ولأن أفكاري طابقت أفكاره. ولا أريد .. لا أريد رجلا يحبني لأنه بعد وضعي بالميزان اكتشف أنني أحسن من غيري!”
― كوليت خوري

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected