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)
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
“When the worst that can happen has come and gone And you’re still standing, remember that you won.”
— Joan Bauer, Almost Home
In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.
— Nasir Kazmi
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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