Amal El Rhazi

“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
― Enrique Jardiel Poncela

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“إن امتيازنا الوحيد هو أننا شعب بإمكان أي مواطن فيه أن يكفّر جميع المواطنين، ويحجز الجنة التي عرضها السماوات والارض.. له وحده”
― أحمد مطر

“Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?”
― Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail