Nesmah Mattar

“لماذا تندهشين من الشر؟..أنت تفكرين كالأطفال:تتخيلين الطيبين مبتسمين وبشوشين والأشرار وجوههم قبيحة وحواجبهم غليظة مشعثة..الحياة أكثر تعقيدا من ذلك بكثير،الشر موجود في أطيب الناس وأقربهم إلينا..”
― علاء الأسواني, The Yacoubian Building

“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”
― Ayn Rand

“You haven’t healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.”
― Warsan Shire

“Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.”
― Nikita Gill