Anan Yassin

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“وعلى مائدة الفطور تساءلتُ: هل صحيح أنهم كلهم تافهون أم أن غيابكِ فقط هو الذي يجعلهم يبدون هكذا؟”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil