Sema

“إذا كان الناس يفضلون, في بعض الأوقات, تذكّر الأيام الجميلة من الماضي, فإنّ الأيام القاسية يصبح لها جمالٌ من نوع خاص, حتى الصعوبات التي عاشوها تتحول في الذاكرة إلى بطولة غامضة, ولا يصدقون أنهم احتملوا ذلك كله واستمروا بعد ذلك !”
― عبدالرحمن منيف, النهايات

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace