The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit Quotes

“كنت في مصر اجنبية لعدم قدرتي على تحدث العربية وفي فرنسا حيث اقمنا مؤقتا لفترة وجيزة، ورغم طلاقتي في التحدث بالفرنسية، كنت ايضا اجنبية لأني مصرية، وفي امريكا مازلت أجنبية لأني قادمة من القاهرة وباريس.
بدا ان ذلك هو قدري المحتوم، ان اكون دائما اجنبية بصرف النظر عن اي مكان من العالم اقطن.”
― Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

“Malaka Nazli hadn’t simply been a place, I realized, but a state of mind. It was where you could find an extraordinary, breathtaking level of humanity. What it lacked in privacy, what it failed to provide by way of modern comforts—hot running water, showers, electric stoves, refrigerators, telephones—it more than made up for in mercy and compassion and tenderness and grace, those ethereal qualities that make and keep us human.”
― Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

“In Egypt, it was easy to be religious and worldly at the same time, but that seemed an impossibility here in America. It was as if you arrived and were ordered to choose one door or the other, not both.”
― Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World