Homa

“A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw.”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

“پیش از تمام شدن سال می آیی
پیش از تمام شدن ماه
پیش از تمام شدن هفته
پیش از تمام شدن این روز
پیش از مرگ این لحظه
پیش از این که به گریه بیفتم
سرانجام می آیی
پیش از اینکه این شعر به پایان رسد
پیش از آن که مرگ از راه رسد
تو پیش از عشق
تو پیش از مرگ
تو از همه زودتر خواهی رسید”
― جبران خلیل جبران

“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink.
To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.
Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable.". Our young men today are being told that women are **, **, things to be **, beaten, **, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-fours hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.
So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.”
― Henry Barthes

“She was in love with love.”
― Joyce Maynard, Labor Day