Yara

“في المساءات الباردة أحس بضراوة، أني كنت حزينا. و أني كنت و مازلت أحمل في خاطري جرح الرغيف و عقبات الديار العتيقة و بؤسها.”
― واسيني الأعرج أسماك البر المتوحش

“It's strange, how you go from being a person who is away from home to a person with no home at all. The place that is supposed to want you has pushed you out. No other place takes you in. You are unwanted, by everyone. You are a refugee.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“You are insistent, calling again. You want me to tell you the story of Scheherazade, who rocks the sad king on her knees as she sings him tales from wonderland. Yet you know that I am not Scheherazade, and that one of the world's greatest wonders is that I am unable to enter my country or pass through the region around it.”
― Liana Badr

“To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water