“Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.”
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“I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.”
― Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life
― Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life
“Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.”
― In the Country of Men
― In the Country of Men
“How can something be there, and then not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”
― Love Letters or Suicide Notes
― Love Letters or Suicide Notes
“لماذا تندهشين من الشر؟..أنت تفكرين كالأطفال:تتخيلين الطيبين مبتسمين وبشوشين والأشرار وجوههم قبيحة وحواجبهم غليظة مشعثة..الحياة أكثر تعقيدا من ذلك بكثير،الشر موجود في أطيب الناس وأقربهم إلينا..”
― The Yacoubian Building
― The Yacoubian Building
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