Esraa

“A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the world ceased to be the world, and I had ceased to be me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“فهمت ان ببلوغها دخلت سجنا ذا حدود مرسومة و على باب السجن يقف أبوها و أخوها و أمها .
و الحياة مؤلمة للسجان و السجينة, السجان لا ينام الليل خوفا من ان ينطلق السجين, خشية أن يخرج على الحدود, و الحدود محفورة حفرها الناس و وعوها و اقاموا من أنفسهم حراسا عليها, و السجينة تستشعر قوى لا عهد لها بها قوى النمو المفاجىء, قوى جارفة تسعى الى الانطلاق, قوى فى جسمها تتطوقها الحدود, و قوى فى عقلها تشلها الحدود, حدود بلهاء عمياء صماء.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib