Abdelrahman Elbanna

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“صالح هيصة مطاط ! أولسايز ! يتسع لكل المقاسات ! كل شئ عنده متصل ببعضه ! الرغيف يقرب لمجلس الأمة ! والزيت والصابون والفول يقربوا لجمال عبد الناصر ! ومعمر القذافي وأنور السادات وياسر عرفات وصدام حسين وأمريكا في نظره عيلة واحدة ! والملك حسين يقول للإنجليز يا جدي ! ومصطفى خليل وعبد العزيز حجازي ومصطفى أمين ولاد المماليك البرجية !! ده أنت فاتك نص عمرك لأنك ماسمعتش الخطبة مع أولها مع أن السبب في الأصل كان زعله من طلعت !!”
― خيري شلبي, صالح هيصة

“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why