Farida Z

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

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

“As I say, these were helpful lessons for me. Not only had I learnt that changes were a part of Josie, and that I should be ready to accommodate them, I'd begun to understand also, that this wasn't a trait peculiar just to Josie, that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passersby - as they might in a store window, and that such display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun