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“لا بد من تضحيةِ ما، لا بد من ضجَّةٍ ما، فالأقدار لن تمنحنا كلَّ ما نريده دون سعي.”
― محمد حسن علوان, سقف الكفاية

“سأترك بيادر القش تلتهب في صدري وجسدي حتى يأتي ذات يوم تطفؤها فيه راحتاك”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“Yemoja was the root and Osun was the blossom, forever reaching for the sky. And so, Yemoja pretended to understand her sister, and Osun pretended she was understood.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters