February 2012
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“Innocence lost is not lost forever. Anything can be reclaimed. God remakes the...”
– Yasmin Mogahed
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The curve of your eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It’s that your eyes have not always been mine.
Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume enclosed by a...
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One Cigarette
No smoke without you, my fire. After you left, your cigarette glowed on in my ashtray and sent up a long thread of such quiet grey I smiled to wonder who would believe its signal of so much love. One cigarette in the non-smoker’s tray. As the last spire trembles up, a sudden draught blows it winding into my face. Is it smell, is it taste? You are here again, and I am drunk on your tobacco...
Confessions of the Diarist...: Confessions of the... →
confessionsofthediarist:
Here’s my official giveaway!!
The prize is a cool journal (empty, of course) and a personalized message from me! And if you like one of my poems off my poetry blog (insidethemindofmandyshunnarah.tumblr.com) I will transcribe it for you as well.
I am willing to ship via international postage.
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“By candlelight, a page is one moment orange and the next magenta, and each word...”
lilmisznebz asked: abt your post "pathetic to see people follow the letter of the religion".. there was no way for me to comment under it. so listen,logic is good nd important. reasoning is vital. ppl need them in their lives. but religion is about belief. it's about what you choose to put your faith in. no one asked you to believe inwhat you believe in.you do it despite what you hear,what you were...
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It is pretty pathetic to see people follow the letter of the religion so closely and forget about the reasons, logic, motives behind the various bigoted and unfair ideas picked up along the way and passed off as religion vs. a cultural anomaly that got embedded in the religion.
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The End and the Beginning
After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. Someone has to get mired in scum and ashes, sofa springs, splintered glass, and bloody rags. Someone has to drag in a girder to prop up a wall, Someone has to glaze a window, rehang a door. Photogenic...
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via keepingtaqwa)
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Letter to Charles Dickens →
Just now, we are all reading and rereading your novels, your journalism, and your story A Christmas Carol, with its pointed message that a decent society depends on the rich learning to be generous and the poor being saved from ignorance and want.
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“If you are sincere in your faith, someone will fall for you for the right...”
– Ziad El-Hady
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On a Cascablanca rooftop, downing Morrocan mint tea, our hair swallowed by keffiyehs, incense; cinematic as smoke with poetry and chocolates soaking tongues. I will not forget today.
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About last night →
As an adult I dislike sleeping in a house on my own. I will sit in front of the fuzzy, comforting light of the television for as long as possible, just to avoid going upstairs into the dark. If I am staying in a hotel or a new place, I often keep the bedside light switched on all night. I dream often and in Technicolor. I remember dreams, and sometimes write them down. But if the dreams are...
Darker the berry sweeter the juice. But the world favours the fair and lovely
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peony in love: none of us are writers. →
the-peony:
the sad truth is: none of us are writers.
most of us lack the depth, the substance to appear different from one another. but the reality is — we all talk about the same things, garbled together in different words.
we all are lackluster. some of us polish our thoughts with intelligible emotions…
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WatchThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
January 2012
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Earth
Earth Earth! If this love strong and true is too heavy for you too heavy for you to carry, then a blue butterfly that quickly passed my lover’s eye is more eternal than you. Ocean! If your waves come to steal all this passion that I feel and sink it to the coldest bottom, then a tiny loving breath from my body made for death has got more power than you Heaven! If I don’t find my love...
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“Anyone who has had the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of facts:...”
– Virginia Woolf
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Its like you bring chocolate to impress and then you snuff out and say, ‘Thank you, I’ll stick to vanilla’.
Clearly, you’re doing it wrong.
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting,...”
– Donald Miller (via booksfrommyshelf)
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all...”
– Roahld Dahl (via golightlywannab)
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“Let not the day of your burial be the first day of you wearing your hijab”
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As I gird on for fighting
My sword upon my thigh,
I think on old ill fortunes
Of better men than I.
Think I, the round world over,
What golden lads are low
With hurts not mine to mourn for
And shames I shall not know.
What evil luck soever
For me remains in store,
'Tis sure much finer fellows
Have fared much worse before.
So here are things to think on
That ought to make me...
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100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language →
Ailurophile A cat lover.
Assemblage A gathering.
Becoming Attractive.
Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks
Brood To think alone.
Bucolic In a lovely rural setting.
Bungalow A small, cozy cottage.
Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye.
Comely Attractive.
Conflate To blend together.
Cynosure A focal point of admiration.
Dalliance A brief love affair.
“Whenever a believer is afflicted with a hardship, sickness, sadness, worry,...”
– Prophet Muhammad - Sahih Bukhari (via noreenita)
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Greatest literary mustaches →
Rudyard Kipling
“Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his mustache was like eating an egg without salt.” — Kipling
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary author Gustave Flaubert has described himself as a “full-blooded” and “large-limbed” man, which may explain why he grew an enormous, drooping mustache. (Symmetry!) Flaubert was so bonded to his facial hair, that when he shaved it off as a young...
“The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted...”
– Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
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A story that carves patience, struggle and love
This is the love story between Zainab bint Muhammad and Abu al-‘As ibn Rabi”; Zainab was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Abu al-‘As ibn Rabi’ was loved by the Prophet (pbuh) very much. One day he went to the Prophet (pbuh) before he had received his mission of Prophethood and said: “I want to marry your eldest daughter”. So the Prophet(pbuh)...
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“And if all the trees on the earth were pens and the sea (were ink), with seven...”
– The Quran (Surah Kahf: Verse 109)
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