"I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much."

--

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

Rabih Alameddine

#Love Quotes #Dream Quotes #Knives Quotes

“I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.”
“The roots of Cuban music are in my head.”
“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”
“I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.”
“Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.”
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
“Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.â€¨”
“Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.”

You may also like:

Aleksandar Hemon
Writer
Amin Maalouf
Author
Diana Abu-Jaber
Author
Etel Adnan
Poet
Hanan al-Shaykh
Author
Mohja Kahf
Poet
Nick Laird
Novelist
Rawi Hage
Writer
Yiyun Li
Writer