Dina Hanafy

“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

“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

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well