Sameh Refaie

“And the weather was so damn sick of being predictable; I heard it began snowing in the Sahara and I wanted to tell you that I've changed.”
― Lang Leav

“Impossibility

Do you know the feeling when you’re so happy that you can’t imagine ever being sad again? Or when you’re so sad that you no longer believe you could ever be happy? When you tell me you love me, I always think of that strange emotion—that feeling of impossibility. You say you love me, and you can’t imagine a future without me in it, yet all I can think of is how you must have felt the same way once about someone else.”
― Lang Leav, The Universe of Us (Volume 4)

“When every dream
has turned to dust,
and your highest hopes
no longer soar.
When places you
once yearned to see,
grow further away
on distant shores.
When every night
you close your eyes,
and long inside
for something more.
Remember this
and only this,
if nothing else
you can recall—
There was a life
a girl once led,
where you were loved
the most of all.”
― Lang Leav, Lullabies (Volume 2)

“فاكرين انكم حتستفيدوا من جو الاستبداد طول ما هو مش موجه ضدكم و موجه ضد حد غيركم .. نفس الوهم اللي بيقع فيه الاخوان لما بيسيبوهم شوية ويركزوا عليكم .. لا يا أستاذ .. لأ .. ما حدش مخلص في البلد دي حيستفيد من اضطهاد حد تاني .. و لا حتي الحكام اللي استسهلوا التعامل مع الناس بالاستبداد و القمع و الحكاية قلبت عليهم .. امتي تتعلموا بقه .. امتي هنتعلم !؟”
― سعد زهران, المثقفون أو آخر الأجيال المتفائلة