begummehfoozhai

[begummehfoozhai]

brown works so hard and does so much and everyone is so mean to her. coffee chocolate hair leather tea wood eyes broth a warm coat autumn leaves caramelized onions the crust on a loaf of bread. all things good and warm and kind are brown. bitch!

[begummehfoozhai]

if truly this is a heart it will be filled with pain, // like the fragrance of the flower does in the flower remain

[begummehfoozhai]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Brothers Karamazov”, originally published c. 1879–1880.

[begummehfoozhai]

2023

invitation, mary oliver // the unabridged journals, sylvia plath // happy xmas, john lennon // north country, mary oliver // i am running into a new year, lucille clifton // salt, nayyirah waheed // diaries of franz kafka // bird by bird, anne lamott // sunrise, louise glück

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I love life because there will always be a situation u think u will never get over and u always do every time

[begummehfoozhai]

Ouch

The relationship with you is now something like this

There is neither hatred nor love as before

Tumse rishta ab kuch aesa hai

Na nafrat hai na ishq pehle jesa hai

[begummehfoozhai]

x

[begummehfoozhai]

Pretending to sleep so you'll be carried to bed.

Instagram annalaura_art

[begummehfoozhai]

When Ryan O'Connell said "It's mortifying to be the one who remembers." and when Gulzar wrote "Baechain rehte hai wo log jinhe har baat yaad rehti hai."

[begummehfoozhai]

"Ek samundar hai jo mere kaabu mein hai aur ek katra hai jo mujhse sambhala nahi jaata

Ek umr hai jo bitaani hai uske bagair, aur ek lamha hai jo mujhse guzaara nahi jaata."

-Gulzar

[begummehfoozhai]

Indian poets be like “Crow, Oh Crow, you can feast on the flesh of my dead body as much as you like, but please do not eat my eyes for I still have hope of seeing my beloved one last time!”

-Baba Sheikh Farid (1173-1266)

[begummehfoozhai]

tomorrow’s gonna be just fine. that conflict you’re having with your friend will blow over. no one secretly hates you. the world is not out to get you. it’s ok to feel stressed out. it’s ok to crack under pressure sometimes. you are perfectly capable of enduring whatever life throws your way. everything will be alright. you’re gonna be ok.

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Wo rutha rahe mujhse yeh munzoor hai lekin,

Yaaron use samjhaao mera sehar na chode.

واہ روٹھا رہے مجھ سے یہ منظور ہے لیکن,

یارو اسے سمجھاؤ مرا شہر نہ چھوڑے.

[begummehfoozhai]

“I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[begummehfoozhai]

Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

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Wo tere naseeb ki barishen kisi aur chhat par baras gayi,

Dil-e-bekhabar use bhool jaa, use bhool jaa,

Wo jo mil gaya use yaad rakh, wo jo nahi mila use bhool ja.

-Amjad Islam Amjad

[begummehfoozhai]

sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry