— when all else fails, would you be brave to see right through me?

finita–la–commedia:

“… and I set her between yearning and madness, between my veins and my blood’s desire.”

— Hamda Khamees, “About Love and Impossible”, translated from the Arabic by Lena Jayyusi and Naomi Shihab Nye
in: “The Literature of modern Arabia: an anthology”, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi