ZAINAB

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“لقد قطع على نفسه عهداً بأن لا يطلب شيئاً من أحد قط.. إنه لا يستطيع أن يحتمل خذلاناً جديداً، ولو كان خذلاناً تافهاً”
― غسان كنفاني, عالم ليس لنا

“These, gentlemen, are my rules: if I don't succeed, I keep trying; if I do succeed, I keep quiet; and in any case I don't undermine anyone. I'm not an intriguer, and I'm proud of it. I wouldn't make a good diplomat. They also say, gentlemen, that the bird flies to the fowler. That's true, and I'm ready to agree: but who is the fowler here, and who is the bird? That's still a question, gentlemen!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst