Gehad Hasanin

“The day happened to be Sunday, and when I looked on the loveliness around me, and thought how it had grown and changed, and how the little wild flowers had been forming, and the voices of the birds had been strengthening, by day and by night, under the sun and under the stars, while poor I lay burning and tossing on my bed, the mere remembrance of having burned and tossed there, came like a check upon my peace.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“إن الجماعات السياسية التي تختصر أعضاءها في دورٍ سلبي، بلا إبداع ولا خيال، ينتظرون دومًا أن تُحركهم أوامر فوقية؛ لا يُمكنها أن تُسهم بحال في تغيير العالم.”
― دانيال غيران, الأناركية

“Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet