Zainab

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“زيت الزيتون بالنسبة للفلسطيني هو هدية المسافر، اطمئنان العروس، مكافأة الخريف، ثروة العائلة عبر القرون، زهو الفلاحات في مساء السنة، و غرور الجرار”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله