Lobna

“لو أصبحت العامية وحدها هى مستودع ذاكرتنا التاريخية لفقدنا أمرؤ القيس والبحتري وابن خلدون وابن سينا ، أي أننا سنفقد كل شىء ، وتصبح كلاسيكياتنا هى أغاني شكوكو وأقوال إسماعيل ياسين”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, العلمانية الجزئية والعلمانية الشاملة، المجلد الأول

“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“لا فائدة من وراء هذه المساعي , فكيف ينصفك عدوك , وكيف تتوقع ان يجيرك من المصائب من سببها لك !”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.

That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things