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“If you don't create your own rules, they will twist and bend you to fit theirs”

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“When you lose something irreplaceable, you don´t mourn for the thing you lost. You mourn for yourself.”

Loss Sorrow Nostalgia Mourning The Good Old Days

Book:Harper speaks

Source: Harper speaks

“For some people, fear and loss close their hearts, leaving them guarded and lonely and disconnected. But somehow, they opened me.”

Book:Where Wolves Don't Die

Source: Where Wolves Don't Die

“Nachts träumte ich, dass er verprügelt und über Casino-Parkplätze gejagt wurde, und mehr als einmal schreckte ich hoch und sah ihn auf dem Stuhl neben meinem Bett sitzen und mich stumm beobachten, nur die Glut seiner Zigarette glühte im Dunkeln. Aber sie haben gesagt, dass du gestorben bist, sagte ich laut, bevor ich begriff, dass er nicht da war.”

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“Aber selbst im Tod war mein Dad nicht auszuradieren, sosehr ich versucht hatte, ihn aus dem Bild zu wünschen - denn er war immer da, in meinen Händen, meiner Stimme und meinem Gang, meinem verstohlenen Seitenblick, wenn ich mit Hobie ein Restaurant verließ und meine ganze Kopfhaltung an seine alte eitle Angewohnheit erinnerte, sich in jeder spiegelnden Oberfläche prüfend zu mustern.”

Book:The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

“He closed his eyes again, and for a moment had the illusion of holding the world in his arms - a warm world all tropics, lashed by storm. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no," he said. It was all he had the strength to say. But even if he had been able to say more, still he would have said only: "No, no, no no." It was not a whole life whose loss she was mourning there in his arms, but it was a great part of one; above all it was a part whose limits she knew precisely, and her knowledge augmented the bitterness. And presently within her, deeper than the weeping for the wasted years, she found a ghastly dread all formed and growing.”

Death Loss Dread

Book:The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

“There is only one letter of difference between love and lose, and somewhere along the way, for me they became synonymous. I understand now that something broke in me after my parents died that somehow healed wrong, and I started measuring how much I loved people in terms of how much it would hurt to lose them.”

Love Loss Before I Let Go Skyland

Book:Before I Let Go

Source: Before I Let Go

“If life transcends death, then I will search for you there.”

Love Loss Afterlife The Expanse

Author:James S.A. Corey

“For a time he had tried to forget her; it was more convenient that way. Now he clung to thoughts of that face, bereft. He wondered if he would see her again.”

Loss Regret Memory

Book:The Damnation Game

Source: The Damnation Game

“God is the master of every storm, particularly those that rage within us.”

God Jesus Loss Struggle Storm Difficulties Master Devastation

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lights" Lights of churches, monasteries, Christmas trees, and magnificent mosques The dim lights inside warm houses in all the foreign cities where I wandered alone The far away lights of cars driving over bridges I watched from the windows of boring hotels on clear moonlit nights Candle lights and lanterns Lights of little shops in ancient and forgotten alleys Lights of ships sailing to places I will never get to see The lamp post lights on dark rainy winter nights The remote lighthouses and lights of unknown fishermen The glittering lights I have seen in the eyes of kind strangers in cities tourists never go to All these lights I once loved that break me now as they remind me of the magical light that was extinguished in your eyes … [Original poem published in Arabic on November 13, 2024 at ahewar.org]”

Love Life Lessons Loss Sorrow Beloved Broken Heart Companionship Arabic Poetry Lights Arabic Literature

Author:Louis Yako