Hanan

“You don’t hunt something that you can live with, you idiot. You can’t have a challenge for a lifetime, it’ll drain you out. You’ll be dead before you even know it. Someone you go all those miles for, someone you change your own skin for, someone you take pride in having managed to impress; is most probably someone you don’t live with. People you can live with are ones who complete your sentences, ones who are too comforting, ones who don’t really urge you to fall off cliffs for them, rather cheer you on by their mere presence; ones who you can exercise silence with, free and unguarded silence.”
― Ibraheem Hamdi, The Cashmere Scarf

“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories and reminiscences. It flies you up high and leaves you without gravity, without reference, and absolutely without destination.”
― Ibraheem Hamdi, The Cashmere Scarf

“I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.”
― Ibraheem Hamdi, The Cashmere Scarf

“القنديل الذي سترى في ضوئه العالم، عليك أن تشعله بنفسك.”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, قناديل ملك الجليل