Maryam

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“كلّما قالوا انتهى، فاجأتُهُمْ أَنّي ابتدأتْ ”
― مريد البرغوثي

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.”
― Emily Dickinson