رغْدُ العَيْش

“Must I then lose this admirable being? I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathise with and love me. Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one; but I fear I have gained him only to know his value and lose him. I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

“ويا لتبدل جميلة المفاجئ! كانما لم بقى شي من تلك الفتاة الضاحكة الممتلئة الحياة، فقد غمر حزن الربيع الصافي عينيها المطفأتين، وتطوف على شفتيها ابتسامة غامضة حالمة، فقد كانت سعيدة بشي لا يعرفه سواها.”
― Chingiz Aitmatov, Jamilia

“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis