Shirin

“I fight with words, and I use them well.”
― Lauren Blakely, Asking for a Friend

“أجمل لحظة في الحب هي قبل الإعتراف به. كيف تجعل ذلك الارتباك الأول يطول. تلك الحاله من الدوران التي يتغير فيها نبضك وعمرك أكثر من مرّة في لحظة واحدة.. وأنت على مشارف كلمة واحدة.”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

“As I took off the rumpled sheets, the smell of the people who had slept in them would lift up into the air. There was the round, almost sweet sweat smell of a child who had spent a day happily exploring, or the sharper-edged odor of one who'd gone to bed unhappy. With the bigger beds, I came to understand the way the scents of two people could mingle as effortlessly as rainwater, and to recognize the times they stayed apart, the smells resolutely separate. Sometimes there were those unreal perfumes, jumbling and talking too loudly- but underneath them I could always find the person. Sadness, like the dark purple juice of a blackberry. Fear, like the metallic taste of an oncoming storm. Love, which smelled like nothing so much as fresh bread. In an odd way, the game wasn't that different from reading the smells of our island. Scents were always about what was growing and what was dying. What would last through the next season. This was just with people instead of trees or flowers or dirt.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.”
― Leigh Michaels, On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells