Rihab Sebaaly

“كم نحن محبوسون فى أجسادنا وعقولنا !! إننا دائماًنعطى الآخرين صفاتنا وننظر إليهم من خلال مضيق من آرائنا وتفكيرنا ...نريدهم أن يكونوا (نحن) ما وسعنا ذلك ،نريد أن نحشرهم فى جلودنا ، أن نعطيهم عيوننا كى ينظروا بها ،وأن نلبسهم ماضينا ،وطريقتنا فى مواجهه الحياه ونضعهم داخل أطر يرسمها فهمنا الحالى للزمان والمكان.”
― غسان كنفاني, موت سرير رقم 12

“تتسع الحياة وتضيق بقدر إقدامنا عليها”
― Elif Shafak, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People