Amra Sabic-El-Rayess > Quotes

“Maybe bad people never believe they are bad,' I venture. 'While good people are always questioning their goodness. Maybe that's what keeps them good—the constant questioning.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“We like to see our enemies as fairy-tale villains, thoroughly wicked. But Tata sees nuances. He sees people, not causes or countries.

It's the right way of looking at the world, I know. But unpopular.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“The war didn’t spring on me all at once.
Instead, like a cat, it stalked me quietly.
There might have been a rustle of leaves, a glint of golden eye.
But like a mouse, I didn’t believe it was there until it pounced.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“We have been humans for 200,000 years. We have had written language for 5,000 years. We have been to space! Yet, somehow we cannot learn not to hate each other.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“To me, people are all the same -- basic biology. But other people look at someone and see their parents, their ancestors back 1000 years. They see skin color, and religion, and politics. They do not see simply a lump of DNA struggling to survive.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“They all live good lives because they are good people, not because they are following some imposed moral code.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival