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“كثيرةٌ هى الكلمات التي أبكتني وكفكفتُها”
― سوزان عليوان, كل الطرق تؤدي إلى صلاح سالم

“أما أنا فلم أملك يوماً شيئاً مهمّاً أقوله، وحين أحاول التفكير بما يلخّص حياتي لا يخرج من فمي إلا البلاهات.”
― عزيز محمد, .الحالة الحرجة للمدعو ك

“Isabel, as she herself grew older, became acquainted with revulsions, with disgusts; there were days when the world looked black and she asked herself with some sharpness what it was that she was pretending to live for.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans