Fatima

“ولكنني متأكد من شئ واحد على الأقل،هو قيمتك عندي..أنا لم أفقد صوابي بك بعد، ولذلك فأنا الذي أعرف كم أنت أذكى وأنبل وأجمل.لقد كنت في بدني طوال الوقت، في شفتي، في عيني وفي رأسي. كنت عذابي وشوقي والشيء الرائع الذي يتذكره الإنسان كي يعيش ويعود..إن لي قدرة لم أعرف مثلها في حياتي على تصورك ورؤيتك.. وحين أرى منظراً أو أسمع كلمة أو أعلق عليها بيني وبين نفسي أسمع جوابك في أذني، كأنك واقفة إلى جواري ... ويدك في يدي”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.”
― Remarque, Erich Maria Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front

“It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front