Even if you are annoyed come just to give me pain Come even if you have to then leave me yet again
Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa
Aa phir se mujhe chhod ke jaane ke liye aa
— Ahmad Faraz
Tumhein lagta hai ki main tumhein apni taqleefein nahi batati
Par tumhe kaise samjhaon ki tumhe dekhte hi mujhe koi taqleef hi nahi rehti
You think I don't tell you my problems?
But how can I make you understand that all my problems disappear just by looking at you?
— where shadows live
(Photo by Dina Nasyrova)
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Jalal al-Din Rumi
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
— Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book
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And then there are days when I can't even recognise myself.
— where shadows live, on days I feel lost
you must love life even when you have no stomach for it
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