Fatima

“Why should I seek more?
I am the same as he.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“I am comparing gravity with belonging... Both phenomena observably exist... but neither is understood...We know the force of gravity but not its origins; and to explain how we become attached to our birth places we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. -- from "Home" and "Shame”
― Salman Rushdie, Home

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

“cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed