Basma Wali

“She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.”
― Tyler Hamilton

“لأنها هي ولأنني أنا؛ ولأننا حاولنا أن نتخلى عن أنفسنا كي نتمكن من الحياة سوياً فسنفقد أنفسنا.”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, عناق عند جسر بروكلين

“نحنُ في سنة 1971 حين قال ميريك: نضال الإنسان ضد السلطة هو نضال الذاكرة ضد النسيان.”
― ميلان كونديرا, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting