Nastaran Ayoubi

“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
― Alice Munro

“دختران شهر
به روستا فکر می کنند
دختران روستا
در آرزوی شهر می میرند
مردان کوچک
به آسایش مردان بزرگ فکر می کنند
مردان بزرگ
در آرزوی آرامش مردان کوچک
می میرند
کدام پل
در کجای جهان
شکسته است
که هیچکس به خانه اش نمی رسد”
― گروس عبدالملکیان

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”
― Alice Munro