Rawan Ouda

“الذي يجبرنا على أن نزغرد في جنازات شهدائنا هو ذلك الذي قتلهم، نزغرد حتى لانجعله يحس لحظة أنه هزمنا وإن عشنا سأذكرك أننا سنبكي كثيرا بعد أن نتحرر..!”
― إبراهيم نصرالله, أعراس آمنة

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire