Mona Imam

“لاتصلحُ المحبّةُ بين اثنين حتى يقول الواحد للآخر: يا أنا”
― بسام حجار, معجم الأشواق

“لا شيء يوقف الأَساةَ لا أحد”
― صلاح عبد الصبور, أقول لكم

“For the first 3 weeks of that month, I was also under internal segregation. This simply meant that no other political prisoner was allowed near me. During meals, I was made to sit apart from the others, often with a guard between us. During my ration of sunshine, I had to sit in my corner, often with a watchful guard to ensure that there was no talking or other contact between me & any of the others. Because we were all on the same block it wasn't easy for the warders to enforce total segregation. The other political prisoners would break through the cordon by shouting across to me or by finding any & every excuse for going past where I was sitting & hurriedly throwing in one or two words of solidarity...This was always touching coming from people who were in no better conditions.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf