[noorshirazie]

“She wrote wildly of him—not to remain attached, but to become better at letting go.”

— Noor Shirazie

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao

[weltenwellen]

Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

[partytilfajr]

Imam Shafi'i once joked with his wife saying:

“I had a wife and I loved her, and when I saw her, I said to her: ‘It is an unfortunate thing to love one who loves you not.’ She retorted, in the same poetic meter: ‘She averts her face, and you entreat her, but succeed not.’”

- Reported by Ibn Khallikan

[partytilfajr]

“Live as long as you may, for verily you must die. Love whoever you wish, for one day you shall taste its separation. And do what you will, you will be rewarded accordingly.” - Imam Al-Ghazali

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“Mother, I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly. Some nights, your daughter tears herself apart yet heals in the morning.”

— Questions for Ada, ‘Confessions’ by Ijeoma Umebinyuo

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao // Dialogues on Love #4 // “Maybe I already do”

[timotaychalamet]

Life of Pi (2012) dir. Ang Lee

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

Don’t listen to that voice in your head that says you aren’t good enough. Because you are good enough, and will always be.

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao // Dialogues on Love #6

[communicants]

Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994)

[weltenwellen]

“I watch as your absence accumulates over my head like a heavy sky.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Catherine Cobham, from “Most and least”, A River Dies of Thirst

[aidashakur]

Make room for what you prayed for.

[feral-ballad]

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein, from Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poems, “No one has taken anything away”

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

[latenights]

have you ever felt homesick but for a person

[roohdar]

“Your eyes are like a night of rain in which ships are sinking and all I wrote is forgotten In mirrors there is no memory.”

— Nizar Qabbani, from Between Us