Fariba

“O my language,
help me to adapt and embrace the universe. Inside me
there’s a balcony no one passes under for a greeting.
And outside me a world that doesn’t return the greeting.
My language, will I become what you’ll become, or are you
what becomes of me?
[…] For who, if I utter what isn’t poetry,
will understand me? Who will speak to me of a hidden
longing for a lost time if I utter what isn’t poetry?
And who will know the stranger’s land? …”
― Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another: Poems

“...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport

“You never know what your last words are going to be, so try to choose them all wisely.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime’s supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,”
― Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport