Nasooha

“Only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness.”
― Carl Jung

“How does one live in a world that turns away from such injustice for so long? Is this what it means to be Palestinian, Mother?”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

“Just as the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond will spread further and further away from the source, so the ripples of the disaster in 1948 hit my parents first and then spread to us and to our children long afterwards. Seeing only the ripples, it was easy to confuse the original cause with its effects.”
― Ghada Karmi, Return: A Palestinian Memoir

“The native is always on the alert, for since he can only make out with difficulty the many symbols of the colonial world, he is never sure whether or not he has crossed the frontier. Confronted with a world ruled by the settler, the native is always presumed guilty.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth