If I am hiding, will you come out in this cold to find me?
— Excerpt from Midnight Winter By Michael Daaboul


The moon shines its glaze upon all of your feelings and the stars set their mind to fly away.
— Excerpt from Midnight Winter By Michael Daaboul


She is a butterfly in a jar unable to fly through her luscious paddock.
— Excerpt from Painted Faces By Charles Daaboul


She wants to lay there with someone else who will give her a reason not to be scared anymore, someone who will teach her how to love and what it feels like to be loved. She wants to be someone’s one, as the Sun is to the Moon, the clouds to the rain and the Spring to the flowers.
— Excerpt from Painted Faces By Charles Daaboul


Her dreams flood in and out of her mind like a high and low tide. She knows what she wants, but does not know how to get it.
— Excerpt from Painted Faces By Charles Daaboul


What she sees is wasted. The only world under a blue sky, a paradise lost within a blanket of lies.
— Excerpt from The Colour of Innocence By Michael Daaboul


Did you notice every time we departed I would turn around to see if you would look back at me? Did you even notice how I would watch you fade into the horizon before I would leave?
— Excerpt from The Final Notice By Michael Daaboul


Someone is pulling the plug on you and you can’t help but feel the overwhelming association you have to the source. You feel betrayed.
— Excerpt from The Hero Effect By Michael Daaboul


Sometimes I wondered if this world even turned when you were not around.
— Excerpt from Farewell: The Act of Departing By Michael Daaboul


Slowly, her memory faded and the pictures of him disappeared. She slowly forgot his name and what he had looked like. She walks alone on a path leading to nowhere. She is moving, but it is like she is standing still.
— Excerpt from Standing Still By Michael Daaboul