Christy Lefteri Quotes

They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.

It took me years to understand them, and once I did, the world around me never looked or sounded the same.

Now, standing there with her face so close to mine, I could see the desire, the determination to hold on to an illusion, a vision of life, of Aleppo.

Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.

It's amazing, the way we love people from the day we are born, the way we hold on, as if we are holding on to life itself.

Aleppo is now like the dead body of a loved one, it has no life, no soul, it is full of rotting blood.

Name - My beautiful boy.

Cause of death - This broken world.

The sound of birdsong never changes.

Since she had laughed and cried she had come back to life, in fragments.

She cried like a child, laughed like bells ringing, and her smile was the most beautiful I've ever seen. She loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.

I wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have seen in the last few years. And the children who have survived - what will become of them? How will they be able to live in this world?

She looked into my eyes, as if she could see me. In that moment I could see her too, the woman inside, the woman I'd lost. She was there with me, her soul open and present and clear as light. For those few seconds I was no longer afraid of the journey, of the road ahead.

But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.

But what I loved most was her laugh. She laughed like we would never die.