Mindsource Sal

“أشياء تطاردها
و أخرى تُمسك بتلابيب ذاكرتك
أشياء تُلقي عليك السلام
و أخرى تُدير لك ظهرها
أشياء تودّ لو قتلتها
لكنّك كلّما صادفتها
أردتك قتيلًا”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi

“Nervously, I light a cigarette and chase through the smoke for the wounds that years have seared my soul, words whose fire has never been quenched by ink. Is paper a dustbin for the memory, a place where we always deposit the ash of the last cigarette of nostalgia, the remnants of the final disappointment? Which one of us lights up or stubs the other? I really do not know. Before you, I never wrote anything worth mentioning. Because of you, I put pen to paper.”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi

“The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods.”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi