Omar Ashraf

“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

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
― Paulo Coelho