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“Noticing the twinkling lights strung up in honor of the holy month of Ramadan, I thought "Charming- they've draped Christmas lights between their minarets." But a Turk might come into my house and say, "Charming- he's draped Ramadan lights on his Christmas tree.”
― Rick Steves, Rick Steves' Travel As a Political Act

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

“She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say.

The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind