Sherine Sami

“أنا فُتات إنسان يتظاهر أنه على قيد الحياة وهو ليس كذلك...
أنا الذي يتنفس ويأكُل وينَام بقوة الدفع..
أنا ساعة بدون عقْرب..
أنا يُونس في بطن حُوت كافر لن يَلفظني عند جزيرة..”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver