Osama

“Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her."
"Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“هل لقُبلةٍ طَمَحَتْ ؟ .. قد كوانيَ العَطَشُ
إن لَثَمْتُها بِفَمي .. فالشِفاهُ تنخَدِشُ
أو جَمَشتُها بيدي .. نَهْدُها سينجَرِشُ
فارسٌ؟! أنا فرسٌ .. خاملٌ ، وقد نقشوا
في قفايَ جُملتَهُمْ : " زَهْرُ حَظِّهِ ضَبَشُ "
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من تجربة (ملامحُ فارِس) - ديوان: هلوساتُ صحو”
― محمد سالم عبادة, هلوسات صحو

“Please. Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home...if ever you hear anyone speak of the East," and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad, "hold your judgment. If you are told 'they are all this' or 'they do this' or 'their opinions are these,' withhold your judgment until all the facts are upon you. Because that land they call 'India' goes by a thousand names and is populated by millions, and if you think you have found two men the same among that multitude, then you are mistaken. It is merely a trick of the moonlight.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth