“You doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.”

— C.S. Lewis (via quotemadness)

عُد إلى الله، والله سيتولى ما في قلبك ، حتى ما افسده الأخرون، حتى ما افسدته انت

Eyes III

“Except for your eyes, no blade can control me, no sharpened knife.”

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

" As if my heart has been written for strange things. "

" and all the limitations of time and directions, maps and compasses fail when it comes to you. Who said I need one in the first place to locate you? this, my heart,it suffices in telling me about your whereabouts. As if I am at the crossroad of destiny and my heart has been written for strange things. "

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“ the world is a wicked place. It is not sweet like your mother’s embrace, unlike you father it will not carry your sorrows in its arms. It will crush you and when you’ve fallen, kick you in the shin.

So while you’re at it, have patience. have mercy. Perhaps it may be that you escape a misfortune in return for your benevolence …. "

- X

" we are a story of a conversation, a laughter, fingers caressing the rim of tea cups while we zone in and out of fading conversations getting lost in the magic of eyes. "

" Never forget that people make houses and places home. And that you too are your and someone's home. And that you make people feel at home. "

A nice thing to think about is that everything gets easier the more you do it. You can teach yourself most anything. Playing an instrument, making friends, applying to jobs, thinking more positively. Things seem hard at first but after trying them out 100 times they seem much more achievable. You can do a lot if you're patient. If you don't villainize yourself because you can't do something after the first try.

" For some reason this thought is stuck in my head that, someone has to show their claws to the world and hold it by its throat in order for us to be sweet and nice. Because the world eats nice people. "

obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.

🍂The Stationery Shop 🍂 This is not the first time that I read a book by a Persian writer in English, but I should definitely say that The Stationery Shop is one of the best ones I’ve ever read! It’s some sort of historical fiction that takes you back to 1953 Iran and the times of coup d’état. The main characters are Roya and Bahman and the story is around their young love sparkling from accidental encounters in a bookshop in Hafez avenue in Tehran! It’s so nostalgic and makes me homesick although it’s about 70 yeas ago. Marjan Kamali beautifully explores different aspects of Iranian’s lives, culture and even food telling an enchanting story about two young lovers that take shelter in their favorite bookshop during the political upheavals in Iran and promise to stay with each other, but their destiny is something else… Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts about it! 😍 … . , . .
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I’m reading The Stationary Shop, and I know it has an unhappy ending, but already I’m finding myself wanting to just pluck the happy and romantic parts out into a different story. The initial premise is so endearing and beguiling and something I would absolutely devour if it was set up as a romance. (A boy and a girl fall in love in the quiet aisles of a bookstore in 1953 Tehran? Please. Come on. He inscribes a journal for her with a Rumi quote?? PLEEEEASE. Project me to the alternate universe where they end up together oh my GOD)