Safaa Sabeur

“I continue reading, remembering why I used to love books. Because they show us, in so many words, and so many worlds, that we are not alone.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable

“And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid.
So I am still and I am silent, because if I open my mouth,I may never stop screaming.”
― Franz Kafka

“After Mum finished her seventh day of work, she returned home, and, like some strange magician, pulled out from the breast of her coat a beautiful bunch of wildflowers.

Where had she got them? I wondered. I remember I cupped the wild bouquet in my hands and marched outside, scanning the landscape in all directions for any sign of where they might've come from. Wide-open emptiness stretched out before me. Dry and unwelcoming. And yet... in my palm I held moist, healthy, vigorous life. How? The answer was not forthcoming, so I returned inside, found an empty bottle of spring water, filled it once more and placed the flowers in it. They were the only source of colour in our tattered, underground home. Three days later and still the flowers endured. Their life hung on.”
― Li Juan, Distant Sunflower Fields

“Are all movies books first?” “Just the best ones.”
― Gayle Forman, We Are Inevitable