“افتح فمك فقط إن كان ما ستقوله أجمل من الصمت Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.”

“Then he asked the children to write down three things in their notebooks which might help them some day if they didn’t forget them. Here they are: 1. Each of our five senses contains an art. 2. In questions of art great secrecy must be observed. 3. The artist must catch every scrap of wind.”

““You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.””

“Just because you can feel another person’s emotions doesn’t make you responsible for them.”

Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“I am sorry someone loved you badly, and that they made you feel like you take up more space than you deserve. I am sorry they abandoned you when you need them the most and it has made you believe that love is an awful thing that hurts.”

“You told me my hands were soft because you had no idea what they’d touched.”

“She burned too strongly for those who were eager to douse her intense flame, yet her spark waits with bated breath to be lit again.”