Hesham

“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“أيّ ذكرى مؤلمة بالضرورة. حتى لو كانت من ذكريات اللحظات الهانئة، فتلك أيضا مؤلمة لفواتها.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood