Ahlam

“يا له من ظلم ذلك الذي يتعرض له الوطن العربي باعتبار الغرب والدول "المتقدمة" له بأنه لا يهتم بالأدب والفن والمسرح, رغم انني أرى بأن الوطن العربي كله مسرحًا...
مسرح حروب.. ومسرح انقلابات..
مسرح رشاوى.. ومسرح تزوير انتخابات..
مسرح اعلام موجه..
مسرح قمع حريات..
مسرح تكميم أفواه..
مسر...”
― Abdullah Abu Snaineh, احتواء: النكبة ساغا وقصص أخرى

“I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.”
― Maxim Gorky