Sara

“أكثر ما كان يضايقني و يثير النقمة في داخلي كان الزيف الذي رأيته في كل مكان , و قد بدا لي أن جميع من حولي لا يعيشون فعلياً , إنما يتظاهرون بالعيش , و أنهم ولدوا في قوالب معدنية جاهزة , و فضلوا البقاء فيها متخاذلين و متقاعسين عن الخروج من تلك العلب”
― جني فواز الحسن, أنا، هي والأخريات

“I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I suppose it's part of growing up, yet it's also an attempt to re-invent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I'm still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I'll come to defining myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free