Marwa Ezzat

“I heard the stories and registered them perhaps the way we all, from within our detailed lives, perceive facts--that is, we do not perceive them at all until they have been repeated countless times and, even then, understand them only partially. So much information is lost that every small loss provokes inexplicable grief. Power must know this. Power must know how fatigued human nature is, and how unready we are to listen, and how willing we are to settle for lies. Power must know that, ultimately, we would rather not know.”
― Hisham Matar, The Return

“Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“But things never go the way you want them to, and this was no exception. The world seemed to have a better sense of how you wanted things not to go.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84