Aya Mohamed

“والغِيرَةُ دخان الحُبِّ ، فإذا انطفأتْ نارُهُ انقطع دخانه”
― مصطفى لطفى المنفلوطى, ‫ماجدولين‬

“Dear Milena,
I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“He’d come to understand that they weren't waging a war against books, they were waging a war against reading.”
― Bothayna Al-Essa

“Books tell us stories, they allow us to vicariously live out snippets of other lives, but they cannot take you in their arms and comfort you when you’re scared.”
― Guillaume Musso, The Reunion