Dina Hanafy

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“هذه الصورة القديمة جامعة لأفراد أسرتي
وهذه جامعة لأصدقاء العهد القديم
نظرت إليهما طويلا حتى غرقت في الذكريات
جميع الوجوه مشرقة ومطمئنة وتنطق بالحياة
ولا إشارة ولو خفيفة إلى ما يخبئه الغيب
وها هم قد رحلوا جميعا فلم يبق منهم أحد
فمن يستطيع أن يثبت أن السعادة كانت واقعا حيا، لا حلما ولا وهما”
― نجيب محفوظ, أصداء السيرة الذاتية

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera