Rawan Gamal

“He's the best person I've known in my life, I said on the night when the tiny fishing boat on which he had sailed out with Anchise early that afternoon failed to return and we were scrambling to find his parents' telephone number in the States in case we had to break the terrible news.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“لأنه لا يُسمح لي بدخول القدس
قلت لإمرأة تقطن هناك: كوني عيناي”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“لا تعشقي فلسطينياً فإن لم يصبه الرصاص أو عتم السجن، أصابته الذكريات، نحن شعب لا ينسى.
لا تعشقيه أبداً فقد يصبح يوماً منفياً للأبد”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“One would like to be loved, recognized, for what one is, and by everyone. But that is an adolescent desire. Sooner or later one must get old, agree to be judged, or sentenced, and to receive gifts of love … as unmerited. Morality is of no help. Only, truth … that is the uninterrupted seeking of it, the decision to tell it when one sees it, on every level, and to live it, gives a meaning, a direction to one’s march. But in an era of bad faith, the man who does not want to renounce separating true from false is condemned to a certain kind of exile - Albert Camus”
― Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning