Veronica

“همني أن أرى فتاة جادة وهي تحب، إذ أن انزلاق قدم وزير أضحك بكثير من انزلاق قدم بهلوان.”
― نجيب محفوظ, ثرثرة فوق النيل

“A woman doesn't always have a choice, not in a meaningful way. Sometimes there is a debt that must be paid, a comfort that she is obliged to provide, a safe passage that must be secured. Everyone of us has lain down for a reason that was not love.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“At the same time, what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were very complex and hard to fathom,”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”
― Milan Kundera, The Festival of Insignificance