Sabr صبر
“I think everything is a lot simpler than we tend to make it, including me and you. Because what it comes down to is I just want someone to carve pumpkins with, someone to help me hang Christmas lights in our living room window, someone to hold me when I’m crying for no reason, and someone who will split 3 types of chicken from the Chinese place with me because I can’t decide. And if that means the commitment, the planning, the inevitable occasional fight, and the eventual ring, then so be it. But know that’s never going to be what’s most important.”
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being alone.”— Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
(via books-n-quotes)
أنا في مرحلة من حياتي لا احتاج فيها ان أبهر احد، إن أحببتني فهذا امر جيّد و إن لم تحبني سيكون جيّداً أيضاً.
— I am in a stage in my life where I feel no need to impress anyone. If you like me, that’s good, and if you don’t like me, it will be good too.
كُلما غنيت بإسم امرأة أسقطوا قوميتي عني
وقالوا: كيف لا تكتب شعراً للوطن؟ وهل المرأة شيء آخر غير الوطن
Every time I sing in the name of a woman, they drop my nationality from me.
Then they ask: why don’t you write poetry about your homeland? Is a woman anything other than a homaland.
ihds:
I wished for a lasting love
The love lasted , but the lover left .
تمنيت حباً طويلاً فدام الحُب ورحل الحبيب
Nizar qabbani نزار قباني
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people…They leave me and I love them more…What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world…”— Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (via books-n-quotes)
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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