Hassan Hesham

“انا خايف
أكتر منك
تتسحلي ف هيبة سنّك
و يشاوروا عليكي إكمنّك
كان ليكى حقوق إنسان
و انا مهما أسب و ألعم
انا إبنك في الأوراق
على كام فرعون بتفرعن
و من الهلفوت بتساق
انا لوني مغرّق إيدك
لون احمر زي وريدك
انا عبدك أيوة و سيدك
و بدون ذكر الأسماء”
― مايكل عادل, س 28

“How? It’s obvious. You told me yourself, Lou is like your Bertha—she’s an automaton, playing her role, the same role, with me, with you, with one man after the other. The particular man is incidental. She seduced both of us in the same way, with the same female deviousness, the same guile, the same gestures, the same promises!” “And yet this automaton controls you. She dominates your mind: you worry about her opinion, you pine for her touch.” “No. No pining. No longer. What I feel now is rage.” “At Lou”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-seemed inconceivable.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept