Marwa Atef

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Malaka Nazli hadn’t simply been a place, I realized, but a state of mind. It was where you could find an extraordinary, breathtaking level of humanity. What it lacked in privacy, what it failed to provide by way of modern comforts—hot running water, showers, electric stoves, refrigerators, telephones—it more than made up for in mercy and compassion and tenderness and grace, those ethereal qualities that make and keep us human.”
― Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“لا تسيري مع التيار، بل كوني أنتِ التيار.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love