Hadeer Ghareeb

“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.”
― Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

“I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.”
― Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon