- Mahmoud Darwish, A river dies of thirst
—I must have you […] My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’
To love life even when you have no stomach for it as they say!
I made it through
April, May, June; it seemed
I had outsmarted grief
but pulled the hanged man
card repeatedly—the self-same
sorrow said a different way.— Maya C. Popa, from “Signal”
Gillian Flynn, from Sharp Objects
He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had never met anyone like her before.
“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cosy bed, and to love and be loved in return.”— Starra Neely Blade
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“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