Wejdan

“لا أذكر أنني استمتعت بمعلومة، أو أدهشتني قصة أو شهقت لاكتشاف فكرة هزّتني جدّتها، المعلومة الوحيدة التي كانت تصيبنا بالخجل والضحكات السريّةالمختلسة، هو درس الحيض الذي كنا ندرسه ونحن ما زلنا في الصف الخامس أو لربما السادس الابتدائي.”
― أميمة الخميس, ماضي مفرد مذكر

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“No one can sing well, play well, or write well, without living through moments of the deepest pain and anguish. Every real talent has known times of torturing depression when the heart in its agony has cried out to God: “Why hast Thou forsaken me? What have I done that I should suffer so?" And then, at the very darkest moment, suddenly, the veil is torn from their eyes! Truth, with her flaming torch, stands before them, and they understand that God sends them suffering to strengthen and ennoble their talent, that it may touch men's hearts and show to tired wanderers on earth glimpses of heaven.”
― Lyubov Dostoyevskaya, The Emigrant

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story