Faris Alsaleh

“If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.”
― Ehud Barak

“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt. It doesn’t matter a damn bit. We’re no avatars, no sons of god or man. We’re only us, scribbling our conceits alone, reading alone, and dying alone.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“For good people, religion means peace with everybody, for bad guys a tribe to protect”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“—It is hard to die. Harder to live.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion