Shams Smiled Fleetingly. “Every Man Has A Degree Of Womanliness Inside.”
Shams smiled fleetingly. “Every man has a degree of womanliness inside.”
“Even the ones who are manly men?”
“Especially those, my dear,” Shams said, garnishing his words with a wink and dropping his voice to a whisper, as if sharing a secret.
—The Forty Rules of Love
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You have stopped missing me at 2 AM also.
I hated you for a long time. From the time I was little, I used to think that I didn't belong in such a miserable little place, that I was someone who deserved to be in more comfortable circumstances. I felt it was unfair for you to treat me as you did. My classmates all seemed to be living happy, satisfying lives. Kids whose gifts and talents were far inferior to mine were having much kore fun than I was every day. I used to seriously wish that you were not my father. I imagined that this had to he some mistake; you couldn't possibly be my real father; there couldn't be any blood relationship.
—Tengo
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84, Book 2
I reread our texts. I cry to the words that made me laugh.
I hold onto to my crumbling self, as it drifts apart in your memories.
گئے موسم میں جو کِھلتے تھے گلابوں کی طرح
دل پہ اُتریں گے وہی خواب عذابوں کی طرح
Like roses that bloomed last season
The same dreams will descend on the heart like torments
_Parveen Shakir // پروین شاکر
I want to love you with all my heart.
But somedays I wish to be loved too.
— Anne Sexton, Elegy in the Classroom
The feminine urge to love them with your whole heart even when you know it will never be reciprocated.
oh i’m yours? carve your name into my chest then loser
