Shimaa Mahmoud

“I remembered my father coaching me before I took my GCE exam and how he said, as I stalled in solving a long equation, 'Yes, you're getting there. Don't doubt yourself. Don't stop.' Is that why I believe now in always trying? It is, of course, too easy to draw simple causative lines. It was the wholeness of him that formed me, but it was also these incidents, slice by slice.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Never' has come to say. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“ما نفع عيد لا ينفضح فيه الحب بك”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عليك اللهفة

“العشّاق الذين أضاعوا حقائب الصبر بالطائرات التي لا توقيت لإقلاعها”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عليك اللهفة