Gerges Yousef

“he found himself thinking of Samwell Tarly … and, oddly, of Tyrion Lannister. He wondered what Tyrion would have made of the fat boy. "Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it", the dwarf had told him, grinning. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“لم يأسره منطق الثالوث المجنون اذ لم يفهمه.
بل أسره شعر الدين الجديد، شيء احس به فى نخاعه؛بدت ترنيمة الأخوة الذين يجلسون في الظلمة والخوف وكأنها تجيب عن سؤال غامض ملح ،لبث يلاحق روحه الشابة ؛سؤال عن التوأمين الذين يصرخان في الغابة ،وعن ايكيمفونا الذي قتل. شعر براحة داخلية والترنيمة تتدفق الى روحه الجافة العطشى. كانت كلمات الترنيمة مثل قطرات المطر المتجمدة وهي تذوب علي حلق الأرض اللاهثة الجافة.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“man does not stand forever, his nullification.
they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
― Carl Jung

“My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police