Hala

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

“How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“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