Esra'a Maher Gh

“There is a grief worse than death. It is the grief of a life half-lived. Not because you don’t know what could have been—but because you do. You realize too late that it was there for the taking—right there in your hands—and you let it slip away. Because you let something—or someone—keep you apart.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“Two cures for love

1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter.
2. The easy way: Get to know him better.”
― Wendy Cope, The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Mind, Heart and Soul

“In France we say, tu me manques. It means ‘you are missing from me.’ Not I miss you—the way Americans say it—but you are missing from me. The part of you that is a part of me . . . is gone. This is how it is for her. There’s a void in her life where you used to be, and she doesn’t know how to fill it.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“سهر العيون لغير وجهك ضائع * و بكاؤهن لغير فقدك باطل.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, ‫أيها الولد‬