Mariam

“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist