Ahmed Allam > Ahmed's Quotes

“ لا أريد منكِ أن تفني كيانك فى كيانى ولا فى كيان أي إنسان. ولا أريد لك أن تستمدى ثقتك فى نفسك وفى الحياة مني أو من أي إنسان. أريد لك كيانك الخاص المستقل، والثقة التى تنبعث من النفس لا من الآخرين. وإذ ذاك –عندما يتحقق لكِ هذا- لن يستطيع أحد أن يحطمك، لا أنا ولا أي مخلوق. إذ ذاك فقط، تستطيعين أن تلطمي من يلطمك وتستأنفى المسير. وإذ ذاك فقط تستطيعين أن تربطي كيانك بكيان الآخرين، فيزدهر كيانك وينمو ويتجدد، وإذ ذاك فقط تحققين السعادة.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“لا تسمح لهم أبدًا بأن يعلموا أنهم قادرون على إيذائك !”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“ ما أعجب الأشياء التي نفكر فيها في تلك المساحة بين الحياة و الموت ..”
― سوزان أبو الهوى, Mornings in Jenin