Wala'a

“إنّني أشهد في نفسي صراعا وعراكا وأرى ذاتي شيطانا وأحيانا ملاكا هل أنا شخصان يأبى هذا مع ذاك اشتراكا”
― إيليا أبو ماضي, ‫ديوان إيليا أبو ماضي‬

“This is a magical place,” I said. “Everything shines here.” “You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“الفلاسفة يبتكرون نظريات يتبناها تلاميذ ربما يفقدون ايمانهم بها بعد حين، لكن العشاق يضعون نظريات واقعية تتبناها البشرية كلها ولن يفقدوا ايمانهم بها طالما ينطق النهار بمُترادفات وأضاد ساهم العُشاق في ابتكارها”
― عبد السلام إبراهيم, جماعة الرب

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated