Lujain

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“إن رغبتي في إتقان ماأقوم به من عمل لم تعن، قط، رغبتي في التفوق على أي إنسان آخر. وكنت، ولا أزال، أرى أن هذا العالم يتسع لكل الناجحين بالغا مابلغ عددهم. كنت، ولا أزال، أرى أن أي نجاح لا يتحقق إلا بفشل الأخرينهو، في حقيقته، هزيمة ترتدي ثياب النصر”
― غازي القصيبي, حياة في الإدارة

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman