Ala Hamzeh

“Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

“It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'
Because he got hurt?'
No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.”
― Henri Nowen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984