Hala

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

“صلي وصام لأمر كان يطلبه
فلما انقضي الامر لا صلي ولا صام”
― أحمد بهجت, حوار بين طفل ساذج وقط مثقف

“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil