“Let’s be hungry a little/ while longer. Let’s not hurt each other if we can.”
- Maya C. Popa from “Wound is the Origin of Wonder.”
Rida Ali
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Words borrowed from someone’s diary 📖 I do ✍🏼 just not here 😅 (okay maybe occasionally) try following the link to read my words👇🏼
- “How could I love you after that? But I did, I did.”
- "Do not be absent for too long and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change." -Mahmoud Darwish
- “How do you prefer your coffee?” “With you.”
- "I desire violently— and I wait."
- “But I kept you like an oath.”
- "When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it." - Caitlyn Siehl
- “If I am for others, then who is for me? And if I am for myself, then what am I for?” - Ruslana Korshunova
- “Your mind, you say, is like your hands, vacant: Vacant is not innocent.” - Margaret Atwood
- “I will rot in this room forever. I have never been beautiful.”
- “I envy his serenity. Although there must be a volcano under there somewhere.”
- "I never saw eyes like THAT, that color, that vicious fire_" - Charles Bukowski
- “And after breaking we realize that destiny has a different opinion, which doesn’t resemble our dreams.” - Mehmoud Darwish





