Maryam

“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

“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

“إن مسألة مسؤولية الفكر لدى الإنسان
هي مسألة أن الله يريد للإنسان أن يكون إنساناً في صلابة عقله
وفي صلابة إرادته
وفي صلابة موقفه
أن لا يكون الصدى
وأن لا يكون الظل
وأن لا يكون كمية مهملة لا معنى لها”
― السيد محمد حسين فضل الله

“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore