“killing the flowers will not delay spring” / al-yarmouk palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al-khatib

Source: Instagram @nickikattoura

"I search for you in my dreams."

- Li Qingzhao

“I miss you as easily as breathing”

santorini / @anaelisabetaxx

Amour By Rurik Dmitrienko

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Because what was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it wasn't your own?”

—Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“It seems to me, more and more, we are pain, and hurt, and loneliness covered with skin.”

—Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“In a world that is ever shifting and unpredictable, I've come to believe it is totally fine not to feel fine. It is perfectly okay not be okay. If truth be told, if from time to time, you do not catch yourself overwhelmed and exhausted, or even incandescent, maybe you are not really following what is going on - here, there and everywhere.”

—Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

—Kahlil Gibran

“The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.

They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.”

—Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

-Anis Mojgani