Fatma Marzouki

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“Being hurt is part of being a fallible human being, surrounded by other fallible human beings.”
― Erica Spindler, Fortune

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Those lips that Love's own hand did make
Breathed forth the sound that said, 'I hate'
To me that languished for her sake,
But, when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom,
And taught it thus anew to greet:
'I hate,' she altered with an end
That followed it as gentle day
Doth follow night, who like a fiend
From Heaven to Hell is flown away.
'I hate' from hate away she threw
And saved my life, saying 'not you'.”
― William Shakespeare, The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint