Sawda

“Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again--”
― Anna Akhmatova

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
― Charles Mackay

“Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.”
― Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

“i overthink.
i overlove.
i over feel.

i am the sea
or i am nothing.”
― Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction