Alyaa Alasfoor

“You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A wrinkle in time by madeleine l'engle:

“I'm not perfect. I'm unfulfilled.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence

“Even if ten out of twelve men had fallen, the two survivors would surely meet over a glass on their first evening off, and drink a silent toast to their comrades, and jestingly talk over their shared experiences. There was in these men a quality of both emphasized the savagery of war and transfigured it at the same time: an objective relish for danger, the chevaleresque urge to prevail in battle.”
― Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel

“They wanted to glory in grievance, in promises of vengeance, in their past oppression, in their present poverty and in the nobility of their darker skins.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence