Sabrina

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Absent Presence

“The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst: Journals

“I leave the other side of my life where it wants to stay, and follow the
remainder of my life in search of the other side of it.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst: Journals

“The mercy bullet

I envy horses: if they break a leg and feel humiliated because they can no longer charge back and forth in the wind, they are cured by a mercy bullet. So if something in me gets broken, physically or spiritually, I would do well to look for a proficient killer, even if he is one of my enemies. I will pay him a fee and the price of the bullet, kiss his hand and his revolver, and if I am able to write, extol him in a poem of rare beauty, for which he can choose the metre and rhyme.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, A River Dies of Thirst: Journals