Iman

“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them.”
― Olga Grushin, The Line

“المرء ليس دائما هو كيف انتهى وليس كيف بدأ؛ فقد ينتهي بما بدأ أو لم يبدأ بما انتهى. إننا ما نصير إليه”
― محمد شكري, وجوه